The Trip - Day 2 (Sept. 6)

[This is being written by Jackson's Dad]

At around 7 pm East Coast time I checked my email and -- to my immense delight -- found that I had received an email from Michael Gallagher, the owner of S/V Goodnews. "S/V" stands for "sailing vessel." The email was apparently sent at 10:43 pm or 22 hours ago. The tells me that sending email by satellite telephone must entail a considerable delay in transmission. Nevertheless I was thrilled to hear back from the guys. Here is what Michael wrote in his email:
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we are currently at 21 deg 30' N , 155 deg W heading about 355 North
We are finishing up our first full day at sea and getting used to the waves and motion and the routine of rest and watches that we keep .  4 hrs during the day and 3 hrs. at night.
we'll keep in touch.
It is hard to write emails sometimes if the seas are big, but will do our best.
blessings
michael s/v Goodnews

Please Do NOT hit 'Reply', as this is an expensive satellite phone connection.  Just send new responses and NO ATTACHMENTS. Thank You.
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Based on a very rough guess I would say they had gone somewhat more than 100 miles north of Hilo when this email was sent. I'm looking for a web site that lets me gauge precisely the distance between coordinates of latitude and longitude.

As near as I can tell from the weather and seastate web sites I'm using now, the waves are about 10 feet and winds of 20 knots or less. There are no bad weather warnings posted for their area at this time.

The time lapse satellite photos show mostly clear skies around their location.