Is there an end in sight?

Is there an end in sight?
December 28, 2007 - Day 172    6.5179N,167.4840W
Hopefully this attempt due southwest will finally result in a break toward the Equator so that I can be a bit more in charge of my destiny. Until then, I will remain in the rain belt around the convergence zone, occasionally measuring 100% humidity. This is just silly. Humidity should not go above 100 percent. How was a unit percent of humidity defined? I vaguely remember dew point and related tables from my undergraduate thermodynamics courses.

Until this morning, I had just resigned to living damp indefinitely, but today started with bright clear skies and a light 4-6kt easterly breeze. I was able to dry the cabin a bit, make extra water, and make progress straight south by rowing, all at the same time! All day, the wind varied from east to north, always blowing from the 1st quadrant of the compass. My mood improved, I was inwardly smiling again...

If my landfall were to happen at Mooloolaba as I am hoping, then last night, at just about the time of sunset, I was at a point (06.7213N,167.2345W) very close to the physical halfway point of this crossing. My distance from there to Bodega Bay, where I had launched this crossing 171 days prior on July 10th, was 3051.6 nm due 045 degrees, and Mooloolaba was located at 3050.6 nm due 227 degrees. That's pretty close on a great circle path, considering how vast this ocean is...

At that same point, I checked my ANTIPODE which was located on the other side of the globe, diametrically opposite of me. The antipode location then, was in the very northwest corner of Angola, north of Luanda and almost on the Atlantic coast. I have moved west another dozen miles or so since last night, so the route drawn by my antipode has now begun its own advance across the South Atlantic.

During my human powered circumnavigation journey, my route will cross itself twice on an antipodal point, thereby meeting a minimum requirement for a true circumnavigation. In my October 6th dispatch, I mentioned the rules for circumnavigations of the world completed by human power published by AdventureStats. Their antipodal requirement ensures that a route does travel "beyond the horizon" and does actually go to the "opposite ends of the world," so that one can truly claim to have "gone around completely" using the dictionary definition of the word circumnavigation.

Erden.