Day 9 Mustang position 33°38.08 S 160°30.25E

Mark_needler
Professional Skipper
Wed 16 Feb 2011 22:15
1200 NZT
 
 
We are about 630nms off the north cape of New Zealand, generally things are good but the fuel situation is a little concerning as we had to open the last tank last night??? when we pulled up in Lord Howe we had over 500ltrs and only used the generator twice a day so Iâm unsure weather when we topped off in Sydney whether all the tank valves were open during filling so that not all the capacity of the tanks was filled, strange I know but nothing that the wind in the right direction canât sort out.
 
Yesterday our newest crew member Chris Johnson literally had just put the fishing line over to catch a fish outside the lagoon in LHI an d he pulled a fish in. Later on that one was discarded as he land a huge King Fish it was about 1 mtr long and we now have enough fish to last us a couple of days. The fish and chips we ate last night was probably the best anyone has ever eaten.......well perhaps not but it tasted dam fine to us, well apart from the wind not being from too kind a angle everything is fine on board and we are sailing in sunny weather with 20 to 32knts of wind with the usual cross seas all is good.
 
Regards from
 
Mark, Raj and Chris