Position 1800 UTC - 12th June 2020
- 06 degrees, 44 minutes South
- 120 degrees, 28 minutes West
Sailing poled out genoa with wind at 160 degrees apparent
Sea State: 2.5m swell with wind chop
Wind: 17 knots from East South East
Speed over the ground: 6.3 knots
Course over the ground: 265 degrees
Distance sailed towards north Marquesas in 24 hours 184
It's Andrew's Birthday and it's a glorious day, we had fresh orange juice and some gifts that were a bit random and mostly things he already owned but wrapped up again in last years paper, but he also got a poem and a photo slideshow of the last year. Then he got messages from family and friends followed by a birthday song from the Zouterik girls on the SSB radio - quite special. We did a sail change to pole out the genoa and then had geisha coffee (apparently champagne of coffee - closest we can come to champs underway) and a sausage sarnie - so far so good. I just have to bake a cake now....
Over night was a bit bumpy with a cross swell and early this morning the wind came around pushing us more south than we want to be - hence the sail change. We continue to make reasonable speed although once you've clocked 200 in a day settling for less is hard.
Right let's get on with more birthday treats - one of the things he said he wanted was a birthday haircut - this could be interesting in a 2.5 metre swell....
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Wish we were out there with you and able to send Andrew birthday wishes over the SSB. Vicariously enjoying your maga Pacific crossing xxx
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