60 miles to go 15.01S 178.54W
Salsa af Stavsnas
Ellinor Ristoff Staffan Ehde
Thu 6 Nov 2014 09:13
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Good Evening this moonlight night!
Wow it is like daylight and the heat is
on!
Salsa is pushing through the waves like a forceful
plow driven by this wonderful wind!
The only small problem is that it is coming from
the wrong direction...
It's coming from where we want to go...
almost.
(gna gna gna this sailors are never happy, either
it is too much wind, or not enough. And when it is good it comes from the wrong
direction.....gna gna gna)
The sailing so far has been different from
previous experiences, in Fiji you cannot rely on your charts so sailing is
all
about waypoints. So if you go from Savusavu to
Fotuna and want to save lot´s of miles you can make a shortcut with the help of
waypoints. This means you follow them like a narrow
road and you stay on it. Around you there is a corridor of reefs and more
reefs.
My vision of being in protected water is that you
will sail with less waves, not in this case, the reefs are mostly under water
and they seem to confuse the seas and that creates nasty steep waves that are
bothering your rythm. On top of that we had to go through a narrow passage at
one in the morning and there the water was litterally boiling from currents,
wind and wavetrains. It all looked spooky with the moonlight and
this massive black water swirling
around....
But at about 3 in the afternoon we came out in the
real ocean, we left the Fiji territory and are now more relaxed with the
navigation.
Tomorrow we will be in France if everything goes
well...
The kids use the Ipads and that keeps them
satisfied, but Erika is also reading and reading and reading.
The other thing that she has gotten into is Loom
bands, she actually got Andreas to do it as well.
If you Google "Loom Bands" you will see what
it is. They buy them here in Fiji for 80 cents a pack with a couple of hundreds
and then they
create all sorts of things with the help of plastic
devices or just their fingers.
Loom band, every generation seem to have their
thing, when I was a kid everybody collected ice hockey players on small cards or
jo-jo was the big thing, yo-yo maybe? You had to have one that could
spinn....
Well hope you are having a fine day and that you do
question the word "duty".
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