If the person who took it puts it back we'll say no more about it.
'Sarf & West mate, Sarf & West'
Pete Bernfeld
Mon 17 May 2010 18:28
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09:54.232S 134.51.562W
Position at 1800 UTC 17/05/10
Daily run 112.4 nm
We had a beautiful calm day yesterday, clear blue
skies [very] gentle breezes and NO WAVES, only a slight swell. Just the ticket
for celebrating Freya's birthday [Williams Pere note she had ONE glass of wine
to celebrate]. She insisted on dong her duty as chef du jour, so she had an
extra half hours lay in in the morning for her 0600-0900 shift and Helen and I
spilit her evening 1900-2100 shift. She produced a magnificent 'Full
Troutbridge' for brunch and in the evening we had a great selection of 'finger
food' [no. no. no....that doesn't mean we ate fingers....DOH!!!]. A great day
for her birthday
We're averaging 4.6kts over the ground, which means
we should be arriving in the anchorage at Fatu Hiva around mid-day local time on
Wed 19t as we have 238nm to go to the anchorage. This means an extra night
at sea but I really don't want to arrive in the dark and the sailing is pleasant
albeit slow. We're running under twin headsails at the moment with the autopilot
(CPO Pertwee) in wind mode. During the night the wind backed to the NNE so we
followed it but as the sun came up it veered again to to the ESE so we're
enjoying a peaceful albeit slow sail and slowly closing the original rhumb line
track.
Word from the achorage at Fatu Hiva is that the
locals complained that the Coastguard/Customs were chasing yotties away and the
locals were enjoying trading for fruit and veg, so now yotties are being warned
not to trade alchohol and being allowed to stay without checking in at Hiva Oa
first. A sensible solution. There are about 18 boats in the anchorage, but there
is plenty of room, the only problem being newcomers who arrive at night have to
anchor in 30/35 metres of water and reposition in daylight.
All well on board.
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