Day 6 Position 34 06.8 S 161 24.688E 1200NZT

Mark_needler
Professional Skipper
Thu 24 May 2012 03:04
24hrs run ~ 161
nms 24/05/2012
 
 Today has been a pretty none eventful day we have be travelling nicely and covered a reasonable 161 nms over the last 24hrs.
 
All the preparations for the rough weather has been completed and later on this afternoon Steve spotted an approaching container ship and I radio them on the VHF to get a weather report which was not too dissimilar to the weather we already had although ours is a couple of days out of date now.
 
 
AS it turns out we will be getting a day maybe 1.5 days of rough weather and then we should be into Sydney by the afternoon of the 27th May.
 
We are still having to motor sail a bit as the wind direction will not allow us to sail the course wish.
everyone on board is well and apart from Steve not getting a lot of sleep due to being in the bow and I think Bernie is getting a little stir crazy with the confined spare I sure we will all make it to land mentally and physically fine.
 
Happy Sailing
 
Mark, Bernie & Steve