Days 46 & 47 13:44.1S 144:19.7W

Five Islands
John & Sue
Wed 4 Jul 2012 19:08
The last couple of days have been breezy with 15 - 25 knots which has increased our speed considerably averaging 6.4 knots up until sunrise today when it dropped back again. The night before last was very rock & rolly and the slamming was lifting plates off the saloon table, but it has now settled again to comfortable sailing with full Genoa and reefed main sail. We have 140nm to go to our next stop, the atoll of Ahe in the Tuamotu's and are planning to arrive there tomorrow morning to enter the lagoon on or just after slack water (low tide) at lunch time (if our calculations are correct - much time and brain power has been used trying to work out the rise and fall of the tide according to moonrise and moonset). The Tuamotu's are a group of 76 coral atolls covering 1000 miles from north to south. We are all looking forward to making landfall for a day or 2. We have just changed to another time zone. This is the 5th one since leaving Panama and one of the more challenging things we have to get used too. To give you a bit of an idea, my watches were 2200 to 0000, 0600 to 0800 and 1400 to 1600. I am now doing 1700 to 1900, 0100 to 0300 and 1100 to 1300, so the change in sleep times and patterns are a bit hard, although John can sleep at anytime and through most conditions, even when we are rock, rolling & slamming.

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