[password] 23Twelve
[position] 33 01.013S 173 55.684E
[weather]12knts SSW, moderate seas, 3m swell SW, 90% cloud, 1010 baro
[speed] 5knts
[heading] 150T
[status] On passage, N Minerva Reef to Opua. Wind moderating, staying SSW, occasionally SW. Sea state improving but still lumpy. Close-hauled making best speed upwind, double-reefed main, staysail & yankee. Waiting for wind to veer further to lay Bay of Islands waypoint.[END]
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.