Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Pacific Crossing Day 8 - 9th June 2020

Position 1800 UTC - 9th June 2020
- 05 degrees, 31 minutes South
- 110 degrees, 52 minutes West
Sailing on port tack with wind at 120 degrees apparent
Sea State: wind chop on top of 2.5m swell
Wind: 16 knots from South East
Speed over the ground: 6.2 knots
Course over the ground: 250 degrees
Distance sailed towards north Marquesas in 24 hours 163

Lovely sailing conditions have continued although we expecting some increase in wind later and the swell has increased already as a front moves south of us. I wasn't well last night for some reason, so Andrew has been holding the fort while I rest up. We are now less than 100 miles from where on our first trip our good friends on Zefrin sailed passed us at dawn this day (9th June) 2006 and took a picture which Lizzie turned into a beautiful pastel that hung on a wall in every house we've lived in since. We want to try and sail through that waypoint and it looks like we are on track.

A quiet day out here but all is well.

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