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Father’s Day – 1370 miles to go – More wind, still flying spinnaker and making good progress.  Wind NW 10 kts, 2’ swell. 95% cloud cover. Cabin temperature 72 degrees.  Our solar panels and wind generator (Genny) do most of the work of charging our batteries, but with 95% cloud cover and no wind they haven’t been able to contribute much.  It has required us to shut down the frig and run the engine an hour or so to charge the batteries.  We woke this morning to a decent size squid on deck and briefly considered calamari ceviche but were not sure how long he had been dead, so was given a burial at sea instead.  We played Emeril this morning; I prepped Ken’s ingrediants and he created a mighty tasty corn beef hash with eggs.  We did a bunch of boat projects.  We caught a 5 lb skip-jack tuna on the trolling line, but gave him a stay of execution and returned him to the sea.