Position: 16 degrees 43 minutes South, 175 degrees 05 minutes West
Wind: 17 knots East North East
Speed over the ground: 7 knots
Sea: 2 metres
Distance towards Fiji: 174.41 in 24 hours (yes that's 0.01 miles more than yesterday).
It's been a reasonably fast but far more comfortable 24 hours and other than pathetic attempts by Andrew to string out this manflu, all is really well on board. I've been working on a song - definitely time to be on land. Yesterday afternoon I was a bit bored so rustled up a ginger cake - wow the best one ever, it has fresh, crystalised and powdered ginger plus rum, its sticky, firey and sweet. I think this is a new favorite. I must admit when we are on passage I do get a bit obsessed with ginger (she says writing and sipping a ginger and lemon tea). This cake though surpassed everything - yuuuuuuum! My Mum has sent me options to make custard without powder and I think it might be tonight's treat - ginger cake n custard. No chance of us knocking off a few kgs before we arrive.
Late morning we started to see winds north of east, we let our course move a little south as wind shift settled, of course with a few squalls. One had 36 knots and torrential rain. Other than the squalls its a beautiful day. At midday we switched the whole sail set, up for northerly winds, gybing the main sail, and switching the preventer and then furling the genoa and moving the pole and guys to the starboard. The most work we have done since leaving..... It was perfect timing as since then we have had wind ENE and now NE. By keep our direction settled as the wind changes we get the most comfortable ride, as it takes a while for the sea state to adjust too.
We did briefly see Oyster Irene IV on AIS this afternoon doing 11.2knots 20 + miles south west of us, we tried to chat on the VHF but they were just beyond our range. We will see them in Savu Savu in a few days - well hopefully 2 actually, as we just broke 300 miles to go so all being well we should have about 48 hours to go.
Captains note- trying keep my fluids up in face of everything. Even though i expect to arrive in Savu Savu quite thirsty
Distance to go at 1200 323.95 miles.
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