Slowly slowly catchee something
'Sarf & West mate, Sarf & West'
Pete Bernfeld
Wed 18 May 2011 00:12
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27:23S176:57E
Noon run 81 nm!!!!!
Apart from saving fuel there is a reason for going
slowly. The South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ) is south of Fiji at the moment
which brings unsettled weather, yesterday it was a band basically running East
to West between 24S and 20S. In the band was a low pressure system which was
causing a few problems but which should have gone off to the SE by now, hence
we've not neen in a hurry to get up to the bad weather and NE winds! Right now
we're tracking NNW at a leisurely 3 kts SOG or so in 9/10kts of ESE winds and
occassional light rain. I hear from boats in Savu Savu (on the SSB net) that the
weather there is quite pleasant, the beers are cold etc etc, so sometime next
week we may find out for ourselves and report back to you lot about
it:)
All well on board, chocolate cookies worked out OK
but I should have used more sugar (healthy option or
misjudgement?).
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