Day 8 Johnny be Goode position 36:27.26S 157:50.08E

Mark_needler
Professional Skipper
Tue 7 Dec 2010 23:12
NZT 1200
 
 
 
The later half of yesterday did turn around and we were treated to about 18 hours of sailing without the motor with very reasonable speeds, however during the night the wind dropped right off and we had to drop al the sails early in the morning and and motor to keep us heading towards Eden. as the daylight crept in so did the wind and now we have pretty much what was forecast on my Grib file weather report which isn’t to dissimilar to the report that George gave us. We are still motor sailing but only to keep the speed up so that we can catch the waves and get to Eden faster.
 
At Present we have less than 400 nms to go and we are expecting to hit land on Friday (Dana, this is not literal it means we will be in the marina)
 
Everybody is in good spirits and looking forward to a cold beer and prepping JBG for the next short leg.
 
Cheers
 
 
Mark, James and Leigh
 
 
FYI for all those that are trying to contact us on the Sat phone we are sorry that we can’t answer them all but the Sat phone is for safety purposes and as the Autopilot is no longer working and we are sailing 24/7 most of the off watch crew are asleep and the one that is on the helm can’t leave it. So please bare with us on that. Thanks