[password]Kiapa52
[position]31 23.304S 174 28.086E
[speed]8.5
[heading]184t
[status]Aaahhh, at last, at last. It's been a long time coming. Three years A GOOD PASSAGE!
Kiapa has had a great passage. I could open the sails up and "let her go!"
The winds from Fiji to NZ between November 22 and 26 2015 were gentle, not menacing. We flew the spinnaker for 10 hours, the screecher (after I give it open heart surgery ) for days. Kiapa was sailing along at 9-10kn in 10-15 winds.

The normal crashing and slapping during passages stopped, replaced by a gentle hiss of water skimming and caressing the hulls.

I could look out to the ocean's distant horizon, and not look up to the next huge wave about to drench the boat. I am practising my 1000 mile stare again.

The Pacific, at last, lived up to it's name….Peace.

Yesterday I lay on the trampoline and the sun gently warmed me, and I thought there is no other place I would rather be…..out here with my best mate,,,, Queen Irene
[weather]10-12 kn from ENE . seas 0.1 m Swell SW 1.5m . 100% blue sky.
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