November 20th

Day Six:

The wind is cool and the seas are choppy. We are about 360 miles from Opua and looking forward to the arrival. Yesterday the wind stayed strong and we were beating into a southeast wind swell. The ride was a little rough but we made OK progress. Last night the winds dropped to 15 kts from 25 and we had a nice pleasant ride all night. The sky was covered in clouds all night and we never saw a star. The temp at night was in the 50's. This morning the wind has started to pick up at the present time 20kts from the south east. The wind swell is picking up 6-8 ft. We are steering a 180 course and when we hit 33 S we should see a wind change from the north northwest. When we hit these winds we will turn left and take a down wind turn toward Opua. If we tried to proceed to Opua at our present position we would be directly into the wind and would have to motor. We would lose speed and we would have a really rough ride to Opua. On the menu for breakfast,lunch and dinner 3 minute noodles. This is the meal of choice!
Position S 29 23.456 E 172 43.332