Day 14- Making Miles

We've had plenty of wind the last few days, no worries about that. We have the wind right on our port quarter, it's just that tiny bit too Far East to either be sailing downwind with 2 headsails poled out or on a broad reach flying along. So we are zigzagging our way across our rhumb line, one day with the poles out and heading a bit north and rolling like hell and the next day on a broad reach heading a little south a but a lot more comfy. We are covering a few extra miles but it's easier on us and Sunflower and we are still having surprisingly really good day runs, today 169 miles made good and yesterday 151 so we are not complaining at all and still managing to get some sleep.
Saw a ship heading for Chille today, first one in days not a lot of action out here except the surprising amount of birds, there's loads and we are now about 1500 miles from any land?. Has been too rough to fish but I still gave it a go this morning even though we were doing more than 7kts through the water got a couple of strikes but lost them, could give it a go now as it's calmed of a good deal but I've already defrosted some chicken so will give it another go tomorrow.
Here's some boring figures that I find interesting anyway after today's noon fix of 2 weeks progress-
We are now averaging 145.2nm a day @ 6.05knts, last week it was 137.2nm a day @ 5.7knts.
This last 7 days we made good 1073nm and averaged 6.3kts or 153.2 miles per day, best passage yet as far as miles go.
We haven't used the engine for propulsion since we left the island although are using it to charge the batteries each night for half an hour and every few days run the watermaker for a couple of hours.
Nothing too exciting I'm sorry to say, but we like it that way anyhow
Pos 5*59S. 115*15W. 1490nm to go