Off to the wild blue and beyond. After 3 great years, time has come to move on. Well we “could” stay but we would have to import the boat into French Polynesia so next stop Fiji.
The weather is going to be light at least at the beginning and wants us to go some 300 miles out of our way to keep the wind flowing. Started down that road, but quickly wanted to tick off some of those 1600+ miles it will take to arrive in Fiji. That is without the extra 300 the weather models suggested we take.
First night is in the books, it was a nice and calm-ish run til the winds got really light and the swell/waves made the sails make a lot of racket. No worries in the morning day light we will fix that and switch out the sails for more appropriate for downwind action. Only a couple of squalls in the night gave us good fun to pick up boat speed in the right direction and only 1 of the 4 actually drizzled on the boat.
Had a nice BBQ chicken enchiladas and rice that would give “Rockin Ruthann’s” from Maudies in Austin a run for the money.
Started with 1664 miles to go as the crow flies, almost like a Flight from Austin to Chicago, only the flight takes 3 hours, it will take us about 2 weeks.
