[password] cloud&sun
[position] 23 32.303S 178 52.757E
[status] As of 2015-06-02 11:45 UTC: Motored sailed over last day when winds went light and swung around to be on the stern. Were able to start sailing slowly as wind backed around to the SSE. We had to drop the main this afternoon when a batten car detatched itself from a slider on the mainsail track. The screw holding the car to the mast slider stripped out of the fitting on the sail. Fortunately we had a replacement fitting and were able to replace the damaged piece. But we had to remove a good chunk of the sail from the sail track to complete the repair. And we had to motor in the wrong direction for an hour to take pressure off the main, allowing us to get feed the sail back onto the track. We decided that sailing in the opposite direction from your intended destination makes for slow progress. Luckily the conditions were very benign during the 3 hour repair and we had no squalls.
[heading] 27T
[speed] 6.5
[weather] 9-12 knts SSE. Baro 1020 and steady. Waves 1-2 meters. 100% cloud. 25c water temp.[END]