GPS: 26 56.197S 178 41.774W
Run: 84.7nm (153.3km)
Avg: 3.5knts
24hr: 84.2nm
Made a detour in the middle of the night around a large bommie. A bommie is a tower of coral. Some of these in this area are created by volcanic vents.It went from 3000 meters deep up to only 18 meters. This was a rather annoying and long detour but we still managed to make 90 nm in the right direction. Shortly after navigating our way around this obstacle the autopilot cut out… so a night of hand steering with no moon and many clouds, not an easy task. The sea finally subsided slightly just an hour or so ago to allow us to fix the problem. Good steering practice for us all though.
Sue ran into a bit of trouble first thing in the morning, getting entangled in the fire extinguisher and in fear of moving in case she filled the boat with dry powder. Luckily the captain was handy to free her from the evil clutches of the extinguisher. Tony entertained the crew with a unique performance titled “Doing the laundry”. This satire was preformed with a straight face, a plunger and even an agitation mode. It did however lead to questions when he started stuffing his many pockets on his freshly washed cargo shorts with socks… foiled by high winds he was forced to display everything in the windows of the cockpit in hopes the sun would dry it.
A slither of the moon has appeared to shed a bit of light through our night.
Good night all
Happy birthday Mauna – from Stella
