Day 24 SY Forté position 35:30 .09S 150:44.9E

Mark_needler
Professional Skipper
Fri 22 Apr 2011 00:19
1200NZT / 1000EST ~ Land Sited!!
 
A pretty uneventful night a slight wind on the nose not helping!! thatâs not usual really. pleasant enough watches they were all pretty calm and pleasant. This morning around 0800 NZT 0600 EST yacht time we spotted land it was St Georges Head NSW, we are still at the moment heading inshore to get into the shallower water and the east coast current. If we bare off now we are faced the fact that the only time we will hit the current is about 30 nms off Eden as the coast line here drops away to the SW here and as it can increase the yacht speed up to 2 knts I donât want to miss it for the sake of a 9 nms hitch into the shore line. Plus the fact that we will get mobile phone coverage closer in.
 
At present our probable ETA in Eden is around 233