Day 6 Position Report 38:30.801S 160:34.879E. 1200 hours NZT

Mark_needler
Professional Skipper
Sun 11 Jan 2009 23:57
From midday today we had the following daily runs, 12 hrs 67nms, 24 hrs155nms
as you can see fromthe figures we are struggling for speed, but with no wind and diesel to conserve we are going as fast as out limited resources will alllow us (i.e. Diesel and wind) hopefully we will be into some wind in the next 5/6 hours and can shut the engine down and do some quicker sailing only time will tell at the moment.
Our hopes of getting into port on Friday 16th pm seemed to be getting stretched out to Sat 17th pm but that again is wind and diesel dependant.
Apart from the glume and despair over the time its taking to get this yacht to Geelong, the weather is nice and warm and cooking is alot easier when the cooks not being thrown all over the boat along with the food..situation normal.
Anyway cheers from Akatea.