23:07.121 S  134:58.028 W

FOR SOME REASON THIS ENTRY APPEARS NOT TO HAVE BEEN SENT SO HERE IT IS AGAIN

19/6/08  18:30

We’ve bowed to prudence and dropped the spinnaker after a delightful few hours.

It’s dark and there are squalls about, so there’s no need to ask for trouble.  It’s been the  best day in recent memory with lots of sun.   I suspect we’re about to pay for it with a squall.  No sunset tonight, just grey lurking on the horizon.

20/6/08  00:45

Few light rain  squalls around tonight.  Moonlight through gauze layers again.

We motored for an hour when the wind went fluky but are now sailing nicely.

03:00

Still sailing, just.  Cloud broke up quite a bit and we’ve had good moonlight and even the odd star. Hasn’t rained in several hours.  Should arive late morning which is the best time of day to enter an atoll as the sun will  be overhead.

09:00

Beautiful sunny morning.  Lots of blue sky, the only clouds are the friendly fluffy variety.Very Warm.  Wind very low so we turn on the engine for the last 20 miles.

Maybe we’ve finally passed through  a weather curtain and are truly in the Pacific.

13:30

Actually we sailed most of the way.  We  anchored at 12:30  in Mangareva in the Gambier Islands. Population  500-600. There are 9 other yachts here.  We logged 314 miles in total. 95 miles were under engine.