We departed Apia, Samoa during a downpour that lasted several hours. Seas were rough causing Doug to get seasick almost immediately. He mostly recovered by the following day as we sailed in an easterly direction. Currently at 11.18S, 166.45W with a 5deg heading. Today noon begins the 5th day of our passage to Christmas Island. Winds have been very light most of the way, with the occasional squall rolling through. We are averaging less than 100nm/day and have burned through 30 gal. of fuel so far, with about 100 remaining. Tactic now is to motor only when boat slows below 2 knots. This is definitely a difficult uphill passage! SSB problems prevented me from getting email and weather updates. Today I replaced the modem-to-computer cable (luckily had a spare printer cable) and problem fixed. For some reason I now have to tune the SSB manually where the modem used to do it automatically, but at least it’s usable now. Other issues–broken pin on one of the mains’l mast slides and PFD popped and we mis-installed our only spare recharge kit. On the bright side, we currently have wind and all 4 sails are up and we are moving at 6 knots, the fastest speed for several days now–Apropos (and crew) is loving it! Had some amazing night sails with no moon to block the star light. The tail of Hailey’s comet has also given us some outstanding meteor showers.