Bora Bora to Tonga
Wandering Dream
Steve Litson
Wed 3 Jun 2015 22:36
16:56:8S 153:40:2W
Wednesday 3rd June 2015
Vava’u Tonga
This seems a long way off at the moment, 1284miles as we set off. We have
had a frustrating 24hrs with little wind. The engine has been on for 22 hours
almost continuously. The engine temperature gauge became more and more erratic
during the night giving me cause for concern about engine temperature, but
this morning all was explained as the needle fell off inside the
gauge...something else to replace. But fortunately not an overheating
engine.
We are in good spirits, lots of reading going on in between correcting our
course. The Aries wind steering does remarkably well with wind, but with little
it struggles to to keep a course, so after a paragraph or page we check to see
we haven’t wandered too far from our course. This made for a very long four
hours of watch.
Miles covered in the the last 24hrs: 123
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