34:50.903S 170:31.698 W

24/5/09  21:00

Not much to report.  Still poled out. Still WSW 6.  Still the occasional squall. Still rocking and rolling. I’m getting my head down before my next watch at 03:00.

25/5/09  03:30 or rather 24/5/09  04:30

We  have just crossed the International date line and will repeat the last 23 hours....
I think...except that the wind’s not the same.  It has dropped considerably to SSW Force 5.

We’re sailing with a full main and a small  reef in the Yankee which is still poled out.  Boat speed has dropped to 7 knots-ish.  It’s milder in the cockpit than its been. 16C. So I’ve shed a layer.

O5:00

Just dropped the pole.  Or rather left the pole in position and moved the Yankee to its normal sailing position.  The wind is now South Force 4.  I doubt we’ll need the pole again for a while, but won’t strike it until daylight and two people on deck. Anyway it’s much calmer for sleeping.

 10:30

Not  much wind the hours either side of dawn.

At  9:30  Steve turns on the engine and he and Jon put out the fishing lines.  In less than  10 minutes they had simultaneously hooked two  6/7 kilo Big Eyed Tunas .  The wind returned this time from the SE and we were sailing again. Thus concludes our fishing for this trip.

The changeover to the new/old  date and time will happen at noon today. We will have two Sundays.

13:00 (old 12:00)

The wind has gone SE now so we won’t be needing the pole again for some time.

The computer seems confused by the time change. All out GRIB wind files are a day out., even though I’ve restarted the PC.  

Major disaster.  I bought a new Nespresso Coffee machine in Auckland and ordered 700 capsules.  The machine has stopped pumping today...and I gave the old machine to friends in Auckland....not that I would have had coffee for it.

Yesterday’s run was 177 miles including 15 minutes engine time and half an hour messing around with fish.

I enclose some evidence of the two that didn’t get\away.