Wednesday, April 3rd: Breaking News!

A BOAT! HOLY SHIT THERE IT IS! ANOTHER BOAT!
A SIGN THAT WE'RE NOT THE LAST PEOPLE ON PLANET EARTH!

Ok its really, really far away, and we can barely
see it, but I swear its there. “Vessel in the vicinity of 10 degrees, 9
minutes south, 129 degrees, 20 minutes west, this is Quester, over.”
“Quester this is Pearl of Persia, we read you loud and clear”

Another Oyster! On their way to the Marquesas. It’s been 15 days, 9 hours
and 52 minutes since we’ve seen another Oyster. There are 25 of them
scattered about the pacific. If that doesn’t give you an idea to the size
of this Ocean, then I don’t know what will. There’s a chance we will be
passing Aequitas tonight based on their last reported position. That would
make it 2 boats in 20 hours. Unbelievable.

Since I’ve last checked in, not much has changed. Still sailing west,
south-west at 6-9 kts. We are currently 535 miles out. Seems like such a
short distance to us, based on our initial distance to go- 2980 nautical
miles. In reality, it's still pretty damn far. Haven’t caught much since the
last post, just a few tiny mahi. Nothing we could keep.

The monotony of ocean passages is sinking in as we slowly make our way
across the largest ocean in the world. Oysters are wonderful boats, but
certainly wouldn’t set any speed records. Hopefully we’ll be there on
Sunday. Our destination is Fatu Hiva, the furthest island south in the
Marquesas Chain. Not sure if they will have internet, or anything for that
matter. We won’t make our way over to the main island of Nuku Hiva for a
few more days. There we will hopefully find a place to get some laundry
done. This is probably my last post until we get there. Check back on
Monday.

P.S. Our Oreo supply is dwindling, we may not make it.