Missed a day, might be because we sailed back into the past as we crossed the international date line. Well not exactly sure as the line is not straight and doesn’t coincide with going from west to east on the coordinate system. For all practical purposes we are no longer future folk, just on the same day.

The real reason for skipping a day was because of a huge warm front (storm) that brought big and choppy waves in short internals. It made for lots of motoring in big bouncy conditions. Hind sight pm it wasn’t that bad, we could have deep reefed the sails and sailed along. Would have needed to sail slowly to make a comfortable ride, so was just a bit easier to use the engines to get a decent rhythm with the 3 meter waves and the 30knot winds. Plus, the sails are new, they don’t need to be punished so soon. Like we can’t sit on our new cushions either. 😉

We are stopping in Minerva south this morning. We slow rolled yesterday to arrive at day break, then the wind died and which pushed our arrival till late afternoon. Doh, can’t seem to get the timing right. But topping up the batteries before arriving and running the water maker makes it sound like a brilliant plan.

The waves have calmed down a bunch, it’s warmer, but still not summer. Will be super nice when the sun rises.

Another boat is on our port side, 5 miles away and will be arriving around the same time. Also looks like there will be a couple others in south Minerva too. We know a couple boats up in north Minerva, they may still be there when we stop there next.

All good looking forward to getting the anchor down and just exploring about.