Lord Howe - Sydney 12th September

Questionable Logic
Ewan Briggs
Fri 11 Sep 2009 23:14
Position: 33:32.28S 152:47.18E
 
A mixed bag since yesterday. Firstly some very quiet gentle motoring and motorsailing throughout the rest of yesterday and half of the night. Then more upwind sailing (not quite on the nose this time) but now into 20-25kts. The adverse current that we had as gone too, so we're able to claim all the sea miles we sail - we're not being robbed anymore which is nice! When we got the wind last night we had a look at whether to make a go for saturday, but that needed us to average over 9kts which wasn't really feasible with the wind infront of the beam, so we've shortened sail to just the #3 and making our way towards sydney at about 5-6kts. The sea has picked up again so we had a pretty bumpy second half of the night, but that is calming as we get closer to land.
We're currently 75 miles away from the entrance to the harbour, so will get there sometime during the middle of the night. Plan is to do a few tacks up and down to time our entrance through the heads shortly after sunrise.