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[position] 23 56.565s 179 07.224w

[status] We are anchored next to Fusio in South Minerva. We arrived here yesterday around 10am (which is when Mike woke Sasha up for the second time yesterday morning – the first being at 7am to call into GHR). Sasha made a rookie mistake the night before last, offering to do the first night shift (which is not an issue in isolation), but if one does the sunrise shift and the first night shift in the same day one ends up being awake for 20 plus hours. Now, (as Sasha’s parental units know very well) being awake causes ‘the mass destruction’ of Sasha. Sasha’s ‘off-switch’ was well and truly on yesterday morning, aa she attempted to function on half a cylinder. Not fun for anyone and one of the reasons why no position updates were sent yesterday to YIT or Maritime NZ – which is not good at all, so Sasha won’t be falling into that trap again, she’ll be making sure she knows well before our 5pm Crew meeting what her first night shift will be so she can manage to
get a nana-nap in. Around 11am yesterday the Fusio crew headed over in their tender and we eventually hatched a plan to go for a snorkel. It was the best snorkeling Sasha has ever done, it was like swimming in a Hollywood underwater movie set! We saw lots of different fish, huge amounts of healthy coral, Mike and Mal saw a moray eel (Sasha had just swum directly over it), the giant clams were abundant and everywhere – with different bright blues and purples and aqua colours and nearing the end Mike spotted a rather large shark, and told Sasha, so they both made a rather hasty exit from the water. Warwick was already up on his tender, so he headed over to Layne who didn’t want to get out, she wanted to see the shark (go figure!), and Mal (un-phased) made is way slowly over to our tender, taking everything in. We came back to Moonfish, and ate a delicious Mexican/Spanish omelet – combine and fry cubed golden kumera until brown, add leftover nacho mince (from last nights d
inner), pour in scrambled eggs and then top with one cracked egg for decoration and grill the top. It was delicious! We had the Fusio crew over at 5pm for cocktail hour, and shared our Blue Marlin ocular proof while they shared all the lovely sunset shots they got of Moonfish sailing – just awesome! Then we had our first steak dinner of the passage with more wind-making sautéed butter cabbage and a can of ratatouille. We all went to bed pretty early and contended with the south Minerva swell – which made for a bumpy ride.

[speed] 0knots

[heading] 359

[weather] it’s clear, and calm, there is definitely more cloud cover, and the South South east direction has more cloud (and gray ones too).
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