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[position] 33 04.902s 175 31.080e

[status] Our first night was plain-sailin! We had our screacher up all night, and had to pop on the engine around 1am as the wind disappeared. The overnight watch was started by Malcolm with moonlight shining. Sasha was too excited to sleep so she got out the iphone star guide and made sure she knew which cross constellation was the Southern Cross, as well as finding out where Sirius (the brightest star in the sky) is located. She did a short watch starting around 11:30pm, until Mike turned up about 20mins later and started to trim up sails and get the boat going as well as possible. Earlier in the evening we all had dinner - Pauline’s delicious lasagna – Sasha wasn’t brilliant at heating it up, so there were hot, warm and cold bits, but we sorted it in the end. This morning Mal and Sasha had bacon egg burritos while Mike slept, we couldn’t believe the delicious smell of bacon wafting through the boat didn’t wake him up – he was out cold! All very well on board.

[speed] 6.1knots

[heading] 020

[weather] fair, very light winds , beautiful sunrise

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