30°24.819 S    169°22.291 E

 22/10/08  06:15

We leftNorfolk Island  last night at 22:45 Auckland time which is GMT + 13.   Norfolk is on GMT + 12 ½ which we never bothered with.  There’s a bright half moon and clear skies.  At the moment we have NNE Force 5 gusting 6 on the beam and we’re doing 9 knots.

As I write this, Opua is 432 miles away.

12:00

The first 13 ¼ hour’s yielded 111 miles, so a good start. Warm sunny day thanks to the Northerly wind direction which is currently North Force 4.  Just over 370 miles to go.

Current ETA noon on Friday the 24^th.

Also the Fleet 33 is back.  We must have been in a very dodgy Inmarsat Satellite reception area for some time.  I will attach a few more snaps from Norfolk Island.