Days 40 & 41 11:10.4S 131:43.9W

Five Islands
John & Sue
Thu 28 Jun 2012 18:33
It is 3 weeks since we left Academy Bay (Galapagos), and we are still about 7 days from our waypoint near the Tuamotus. The closest land is the island of Fatu Hiva in the Marquesas, 400 nm west of us, but we will pass well south of it. After several days of very light breeze we now have some reasonable winds and have had full sail up for the past 20 hours or so and have covered 120 nm in the past 24 hours. Not great, but better than what we were doing. We had roast leg of lamb last night, only one to go. We had some company on Tuesday night, with a fishing boat coming to within 2.3 nm of us. We saw it again on the radar during the day as well as two other boats but they didn't come close enough to see what they were. Conditions are good, seas are relatively calm with about 10 to 12 knots of breeze from the NE.