[password] Savanna54
[position] 28 38.780s 167 26.260e
[status] Good morning. Another lovely sunny morning. A little bit cooler.. temp in cabin is 19C.. about the same as the sea temp.

A few more birds around, mostly flying away from the island, perhaps out for a days fishing. No cries of "land ahoy!" this morning, with Norfolk about 35nm away.

The highest point on Norfolk is 320m, so should be visible soon. Perhaps the peak is hidden behind this clouds on the horizon. There's definitely a different type of cloud showing where the island is.

We've been motoring pretty much all night, except for about 40 mins when K turned off the engine when the wind increased and steadied for long enough.

Haven't seen any boats, but we did have a patch of black cloud squalls to dodge around 11pm.

Now, we've got about 12kn of wind which is nice for sailing, but the wind angle is still pushing us further west, so we've got one engine ticking over at 1800rpm to help us point a bit higher to give us a better course, and keep the momentum through the lulls, to try maintain a 5kn average. We had a bit of current against us last night, but that seems to have gone now.

Some big decisions today - like how to cook the eggs for breakfast, and what pre-prepared meal to take out the freezer.

Also what lures to use today? Some really interesting bottom contours around the island should be good for fishing. There some big peaks and ridges rising from 1500m to 100m deep. At the moment were sailing in 1500m of water, along the drop off between the Norfolk ridge and the Norfolk trough. Clever names.

Haven't checked the weather yet, but still waiting for a bit more north in the wind to carry us home.

Norfolk marks roughly half way to North Cape.

All well on board, and settled nicely into the night watch routine.

[speed] 5kn
[heading] 134M
[weather] 12kn ENE, 1m SE swell, 20% cloud, 1023mb

Sent from Iridium Mail & Web.

[END]