[password] Savanna54
[position] 17 54.400s 176 43.870e
[status] We're on our way to New Caledonia, after leaving Vuda Pt Marina this afternoon.

Welcome back to ocean sailing with quite strong winds between 25 to 30kn. Had a reef in the main and 2 reefs in the furler, but still a bit overpowered, so we put another reef in the main, and sailing for comfort with wind at about 108 degrees apparent.. and boat speed between 7 and 9kn. Still pretty wet with the odd wave coming over the boat at 90 degrees.

This puts us a bit north of the rum line, but we're hoping/ expecting wind to ease and go a bit more east and we'll start heading a more south to our waypoint.

Pre cooked chicken with salad for dinner, now settling in for the night. Winds seems to be dipping below 25kn at times now.

605 nm to the pass to get in south of New Caledonia, then still another 40 nm or so around to Noumea.

All well on board.

[speed] 7.5kn
[heading] 236 M
[weather] 25 -30kn SE, 1.5m S swell, 80% cloud, 1017mb

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