7:41:97S 128:11:69W
The Adventures of Sunboy the Sailboat
Al Sparkes and Deb Swain
Sat 5 Jun 2010 17:05
Current time 0800am
C.O.G 252'M Speed: 6.5 to 7.00kts
Wind E.S.E at about 10-12 knots
Sail Set: Headsail poled out, main eased and gullwinging our way to Nuka
Hiva
Distance covered previous 24 hours 144 miles (bahhh humbug)
Distance to go 725.7
Hello guys, Sunday morning here on Sunboy and what a beautiful morning it
is. Cracking sunrise and now mainly clear skies, moderate winds and
moderate seas. Had a slow old day yesterday and last night with Debs and
Lukey having to motor for most, if not all of their 6 hours from midnight.
We poled out our headsail at first light and are now making better progress,
albeit not the record breaking speeds were have been doing up until
yesterday. The good news is we are much better equiped to hold our course
to Nuka Hiva and I am confident the winds will pick up a bit today to help
us push along.
Everyone is well on board but I think most would be looking forward to
making landfall and getting a full nights sleep. As we had the motor on
last night and the tow generator brought back on board, our batteries have a
bit in the bank so Nikki got the fishing rod out and we are hoping for a
nice fresh mahi mahi or tuna this morning, fingers crossed. Still loving
being able to dip our hands into the freezer lucky dip and last night we
dined on pork fillet, fresh brocolli in a honey, chilli and hoi sin glaze,
served on a bed of fresh steamed rice, sounds more exotic than it was but it
tasted great!!
Debs and Nikki and Luke are not only doing a great job they are just getting
better and better at it and they should be really proud of their efforts.
Layni is being her usual totally positive self and keeps people in great
company in the cockpit, chatting away and helping the time pass. I must say
though, doing this hand steering and the new watch system does make the days
go much quicker.
One thing we have been doing of late is talking about the meals that we miss
the most and yesterdays winners were the Sunday Roast leg of lamb and dish -
meal number two was a nice cornish tea with heaps of clotted cream. Well I
best get this in the mail as I am back on watch in 5 minutes and I do not
want to keep miss Nikki waiting. Till tomorrow..............