Day 6 to Fiji
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Mon 1 Jun 2015 12:00
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The Sea Turns a Magical
Blue
  After doing our noon updates, Bear
went on the SSB to have a chat with Scott-Free and Sheer
Tenacity – boys chat, then the turn for the girls to have a natter, really
nice to listen to Chris and Mary. Next, time to post the blog from Bears little
laptop down the Sat phone connector, expected to take no more than ten minutes
from start to finish. Said little chap decided to have a hissy fit. An hour an a
half later and Bear thought he was on a starvation diet. Prawn and avocado
salad, seafood dressing and a dollop of
mash........ yes dear.
I won the first rubber at backgammon
in a fast and easy fashion, then promptly lost the next five. Cross as a wasp,
not only did I lose it cost me twelve dollars..... Knitting continued until we
both enjoyed the sunset, the sky went from hard lines
to soft pinks over about an hour. Bear settled to sleep and I carried on
motor-sailing and knitting by the light of the chart plotter.
 Very light overnight. My two till six
skies were really lit up by a bright, half moon. Stars so low on the horizon I
had to do a double take to check they were not nav lights on chums. I haven’t
seen a single thing since we lost sight of Grace on day two, Bear
watched one cruiser en route to Suva pass by the other night. The winds have
been a bit fickle but together with the engine Beez is trotting along happily at
five and a half knots. I went to bed at six after we both enjoyed a fairly scrappy sunrise. Bear did some sums whilst I slept
and greeted me at ten with the news – if we can average five and a half knots from now on we will be in
on Thursday. Marvelous news. Time for a proper cockpit
shower. Sounds so simple but takes best part of an hour.
Noon
summary: I better win today. Huh. Don’t you huh me. Huh. Steady.......
Noon
position: 23:22.31 South and 177:38.77 East
Noon to
Noon: 130 nautical miles
Miles
Covered: 770 nautical miles
Miles to
Go: 406 nautical miles
 We left Opua on a sea
of dark charcoal, during our journey has gone through a fading to pale grey,
then through navy blue to the magnificent colour of
just now.
ALL IN ALL THE DAYS PASS
SO QUICKLY
COMFORTABLE, LIGHT WIND
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