Opua to Port Vila Day 6 - Position report

Caduceus
Martin and Elizabeth Bevan
Sat 23 May 2015 11:00

Position           22:34.90 S 169:44.02 E

Date                1200 (UTC+11) Saturday 23 May 2015

Distance run    141nm over the ground, 135nm through the water

 

At last the current has turned favourable.  We had a largish unusual looking merchant ship pass within a mile not showing any AIS signal.  The radar got it at 10 miles so no problem there.  Two days to go and rather a lot of diesel being used in order to make progress.