Saturday 7th
The wind and swell slowly dropped overnight and during today. The two newbies got plenty of sleep, sleeping in the saloon, rising about lunchtime. Julia straight away took a shift at the helm. Still not well enough to eat more then a couple of dry crackers. Austin arose and then went back to bed till his turn on the helm. We are now back to 2 hours on and 6 hours off shifts.
It looks like it will be my job to eat all the food we had bought for the passage, as most of it will be confiscated when we get to New Zealand. B is on soup bananas and crackers. That is if we have enough dry crackers to last, for the others.
By lunchtime the wind was at a constant 20kts and the swell was down to 1m. Very good sailing. We have the 140% head sail out with the main and mizzen sails. This is giving us a nice 6.5kts of speed.
