[password] Savanna54
[position] 30 16.638s 179 04.270e
[status] Hello friends and family! We're on our way to Tonga, again. Our little mini circular tour of a small patch of the South Pacific has ended, and we start again. The last 24 hrs was a bit tough, with big winds, steep breaking swells pushing us in the wrong direction. Boat and crew all did well. A new top speed of 14.4kn was recorded. And a max of 42kn of wind.. not quite the 50kn we had leaving Auckland. Sea state is still quite messy now, but we're looking fwd to it cleaning up a bit over next 6 hrs as we follow the wind and curve around to the north again. With the conditions we had 2 on shift for 3 hours rotating last night.. Shayne and Cyrus, and D and K teamed up. No moon, but quite a lot of lightning all around. Suns out, going the right way, all good on board :)
[speed] 5kn
[heading] 60M
[weather] 15kn NW, 1.5m N swell, wind chop from all over, 10% cloud, 1015mb
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