Heading for Tonga day 10 at sea 18:47.683S 170:35.088W
South Pacific Familyadventure 2008
Claes Brodin
Wed 2 Sep 2009 07:36
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The last days have been quite demanding at sea with
winds of galeforce and heavy/confused seas.On the "coconut breakfastnet" at
SSB-radio this morning,we learned to know that several other yachts had rough
circumstances as well in quite a large area of the ocean.Today though,things
improved a bit,and we can now sail with a bottomreefed mainsail,and a small
headsail allthough "rock´n roll" is still a good description of life
onboard.
This morning we passed the island Niue 13 Nm to
port,but decided to continue for Tonga since our winddirection will be
favourable for Tonga only 2 days more(acccording to gribfiles).Niue one of the
worlds smallest nations(allthough close to New Zealand),gave the world .nu well
known in the computer world.
In this writing moment everybody is sleeping,and
outside is a fullmoon allmost in zenit lit on a quite upset ocean.Uncomfortable
but very impressive,and when looking at the GPS we have 188Nm left to go before
arriving Vavau in northern Tonga.If everything goes well we should arrive in
less than 2 days,but since we cross the international dateline,we will loose one
day of our lives and arrive Friday.See you then......
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