Early Morning Rise
Zepher
Chris & Lyn Darch
Fri 19 Sep 2008 21:35
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17:52.44S
166:26.09W
Hi Folks,
Well it was a gusty start to the day with all hands
on deck at 06.00 as the wind shifted to the north and some ominously looking
black clouds came rushing in on a 25 knt wind, it was on with the fouls and
shake out the main sail , poor thing hasn't seen the light of day for a long
while, it must have been a shock for it to .. anyway we had the main up and stay
sail out ,then got back on course to Tonga , the weather is at the moment
unpredictable as this stage of the journey crosses some of the lows that come
out from Papua New Guinea , these are the ones that held everybody up a few
weeks ago, this one that is currently in front of us is diving south but will
leave disturbed weather in its wake , the wet stuff and low cloud
!
The up side is that we only have 400 or so
miles to go , which means that we should make it in ten days , not our
usual time but with the light airs last night , crawling along at 3 to 4 knots
its put a dent in our beer o'clock time table !
Anyway this is a short blog today as chef of
the day Ruth has just popped the bread in the oven , I have to down load
the weather and listen to the Anzac net, by that time the bread will be out the
oven and it will be a few rounds of hot bread and jam for breakfast umm
..
The gannets
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