Our fastest trip. 5 days and 20 hrs. Some bouncy, some nice, some motoring, but everything fast…
1192 nm miles averaging 8.5 knots. Only a couple of squalls with only a scattering of rain.
Chilly but happy to be here
Now time for some good solid sleep ..
And back to the regular programming..
Return the normal everyday jargon and getting so say Yeah Naw! One day I hope to figure out if that means. Yes or No. 😎
This marks the first 400 nm down and on to the next mile stones.
Daytime run has been a bit better, started out sweet then a wimpy squall showed up. Wasn’t grown up, but just a bit of colder wind and spritzing shower, just enough to ruin a few hours of relatively comfortable sail. We will take it.
We have been knocking off the miles, and maintaining a decent course. We are approaching the Wednesday boats, well the slowest of them anyway. If the weather holds we should catch them in the dark. By catch, I mean stop in and see if the could spare a cup of sugar. Christine wants to make some cookies.
The 2 red lines on the right are our previous runs down to NZ, that crazy one on the far right was when we were running from the cyclone. The boxes are about 60 miles square, thus we look close but still can’t see each other.
Going healthy for dinner Asian Chicken salad, courtesy of Becca on Halcyon so many years ago.
Champagne sailing still elusive, but we do have Mr Toads wild and Willy ride.
Winds, Waves and Water We got em all, or is that beer bait and ammo?
The clouds summoned the winds for a crazy party last night, still glad we only had scraps of sails showing. They must have one heck of a party up there, hooting and hollering some 35 knots of wind making a general nuisance of them selves. The saving grace was they must have been a part of my generation and no longer needed to whooop it up till day break and shut the party down about midnight and left the younger generation to carry on. The younger generation had nothing compared to the old timers they could only muster mid 20s level excitement. Must have been too busy staring at a device of some sorts.
All in all, a bouncy windy night but this morning is looking promising
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All well onboard after the wind party we all got some pretty good sleep. Hopeful we will find at least some Prosecco sailing today, raising a little more sail this morning since the winds are for the first time under 20 kts.