very calm 32.20S 174.49E
Salsa af Stavsnas
Ellinor Ristoff Staffan Ehde
Sun 17 Nov 2013 01:25
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This will most probably be a short
report.
Last night we motored all night. We had Miss
My in sight, about 3-4 nM away from us. Very rare to see another boat under
way.Especially good friends.
This morning we decided to give the engine a break
and hoisted the genacker (the big ice bear). We could and can sail along with a
speed of 4,3-4,5 knots. It is slow but peaceful. We will let her do this for a
while today and then pick up speed again with the engine.
The sea is like the one you would show when selling
a boat, deep blue, sunny, 19 degrees in the shade, smooth soft waves, blue
sky.
In cases like this the favorite spot for the free
watch is to sleep in the fore peak. There you can close two doors behind you,
lay in the V bunk and open the big hatch, the only sound you hear is the water
gurgling on the sides of the hull. Maybe it is like being back in your mothers
tummy. Very peaceful, you fall asleep.
Tuday the Tuna is finished, gone, the last piece
went over board.
On the radiotraffic this morning you could
hear everybody is very relieved about getting close to NZ and no storms in sight
until after tuesday when there is a gale on. Less funny for those that stopped
in Minerva now, is that they are hit by severe thunder storms, they are trying
to escape the scene.
I wrote that the tide in NZ is most likely like UK,
it is not. Now when we checked all the info about getting into harbor we
found the tide to be only 2 meter. The current into Opua is like 0,3 knots at
the most. Probably Whangarei has much more
current.
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