Daily Update 29th May 2009 - back online and getting closer!
Questionable Logic
Ewan Briggs
Sat 30 May 2009 03:55
Position at 1430
GMT-6: 10 05S 134 48W
Covered 153nm
through the water and 167overland in the last 24 hours. We've seen some very
changeable weather. Building winds late yesterday evening until just before dark
when we took the small spinnaker down leaving just the main with 1 reef. This
made for our first night without either a jib or spinnaker for ages and gave us
quite a rolly night. Got one of the medium sized kites up again at first light,
only to have it down again for a huge squall about an hour later. Pretty soon we
were sailing on just a double reefed main (after more wind changes and
concequent sail changes - some more controlled and text book than others..!).
The seas have been building most of the day, but the wind eased again into the
afternoon, so we're now back to small kite and 1 reef, making good progress
(about 8kts most of the time).
We're all getting
excited about the end of the trip - just 300 miles to Niku Hiva now, which
should mean that we arrive during the day on sunday all being
well.
We're all doing
pretty well (apart from the odd bit of seasickness and tiredness), glad to be
back online again (finally got more satphone credit) and looking forward to some
time onland again soon - only two more sleeps!
Ewan