[password] beeskiff
[position] 22 11.777s 168 32.674e
[status] Yesterday was pretty good sailing. Poled out jib for a while and reefed progressively as the wind built. Last night was frustrating as the building awkward sea state knocked us about throwing the auto pilot off course. Struggled to find the right sail plan balance to fix this and have lost time on our goal for the Havannah tide gate but still hoping to get there soon enough to get at least some tidal assistance or slack tide.
Bit of drama on the high seas in the early hours of this morning, thankfully not involving Jolifou. Lyn noticed a 180 meter cargo ship "Kea Trader" on AIS located at the Durand reef 20 miles from us. It's status on AIS was "aground"! We were later relieved to see a salvage vessel standing by and assisting as we weren't sure what we would have been able to do to help. I had a chat with the salvage vessel and he said they had been unsuccessful in their first attempt to refloat it and were waiting on the weather to improve to try again. Good luck to them, the conditions at the moment are pretty rough with a 25 knot SE and quite big seas.
[speed] 7.5
[heading] 265T
[weather] 25kt SE 2m swell from the SE 50% cloud cover.

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