100 Miles from New Zealand

Moonshadow of London
Peter Mantle
Sun 23 Nov 2008 21:02
19.45:54S 176.35:27W

It has been another eventful trip on Moonshadow. We are now about 100 miles off NZ and the weather has picked up again and we have big seas and about 30-50 knots of wind, which is not the most comfortable sailing weather. Saying that we have had fair weather up until now. Unfortunately "Tapestry" has had problems with his rigging again and wasn't sure if he had enough fuel to make it to the mainland. We had to transfer 60 litres of diesel to him in the middle of the ocean. This proved to be a heart rate
raising experience.