Knit One, OBS Two (28.44, 149.35)

We had a successful recovery this morning around 2 am (chalk it up!) and spent the majority of the rest of the day wrestling with another OBS. We were having a difficult time communicating with it and are unsure whether it is due to the choppy waves (winds picked up this afternoon) or due to the fact that the glass ball used for flotation imploded and damaged the radio equipment. At 3 pm we called it, needing to move on. We are going to go pick up our next two OBSes and then swing back by and try to communicate with it again, hopefully in better weather. So the sea has temporarily scored another point. But everyone keep your fingers crossed because this is one of the important ones.

I spent most of the day on the back deck, knitting and watching it rain. Some of the crew was unable to do work around the ship because of the weather so they were sitting around keeping me entertained. Tina joined me for some craft time too. Then we decided we needed naps. For dinner we had roasted game hens with baked manicotti, steamed vegetables and rosemary roasted potatoes. Dessert was butterscotch chip blondies with ice cream. It was a pretty rough day at sea.