[password] beeskiff
[position] 27 48.500s 165 31.000e
[status] Yesterday turned into a beautiful days sailing as the expected Westerly filled in and strengthened to about 17 knots. We deployed the loose luff gennaker for the first time in over a year and with all our biggest sails up were surging on a following swell and smooth seas. Sunny skies and blue ocean. Had to give up some easting at first but with gennaker poled to leeward and wind backing a little towards the NW we were on optimal course making a bit of East on Fiji rhumb line. Early evening increase in strength had us doing a deck-light drop of pole and gennaker furl as we changed to full genoa with little speed loss. Held this configuration probably averaging 7.5s through the night.
This morning we have just had rain squalls which have moved the wind to the South again and currently motor sailing as it sorts itself out.
[speed] 7.5
[heading] 65T
[weather] 15knts S 2m swell from the SW 20% cloud cover.

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