Tonga - Nuku Alofa
Questionable Logic
Ewan Briggs
Wed 12 Aug 2009 06:30
Position: 21:08.27S 175:10.84W
We've arrived! A bit
later than we'd hoped, took us a few hours over five days. We were made to work
for the last 100 miles. We got caught in a weather system which gave Mairi and I
a busy watch - no wind, sails down, motoring, rain, wind from the opposite
direction, sails up, more wind, reefing, less wind, un-reefing - wind back
up again, reefing, and then dropping again - all in the space of a few hours. It
cleared up just in time for a spectacular sunset. We did get some wind again, on
the nose this time and only a few knots. However, enough for us to make steady
progress, which built during the morning to give us some great upwind work
coming into Nuku Alofa behind the reefs (which take out all the waves) so super
flat.
We're tied up at the
main wharf, awaiting customs etc tomorrow morning (like Rarotonga, nothing
happens on a sunday, the people here again appear to be very
religious).