Not N/N 22 nd
Luceyblue
Ina&Buc&Simon&Amanda
Mon 24 Aug 2009 14:00
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17:05.0S 172:34.0W This is not our noon
position, I was asleep then, and my crew were too busy (doing what I know not!)
to make a note of the noon position. Oh for the days of
keelhauling!
Anyway, we are going slowly, the wind has picked up
to about 12 kts, and swung onto the nose (right in front of us). This is a. very
boring, and b. very boring. The wind speed is not quite enough to get us going
fast, and the direction means that we have to point away from where we are
going, the sea kicked up by the wind means that motoring straight into it is
rather irritating, so we have been doing a bit of both.
It is now 0400, and the wind has dropped to 7 kts,
so we are motoring again, on course. Unfortunately the speed/distance means that
we will arrive off Tonga in the dark. I can get us into the anchorage in the
dark, but it means sailing through the big bay where all the whales are in the
dark, so I guess that tomorrow night will be spent drifting, waiting for the
light, maybe they will get another chance at swimming with the
whales!
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