[password] TwinkY6433
[position] 22 28.02s 177 57.88W
[weather] swinging SW to SE 7knots, 1012 baro
[speed] 5 knots motoring
[heading] 046M
[status] Did manage some nice sailing today, but wind coming from direction we want to go in, so on an LTO (Long Tack to Oblivion). Went to tack and wind dies and swung around and since Steve kept turning towards the wind, ended up doing a 360 - Hahahha. After we figured out what was going on, and finished having a laugh, we dropped the sails and now motoring to Tongatapu (we never did manage to tack the boat!). There?s loads of rain about and Steve heard thunder three times and saw one flash of lightning. Luckily no more of that though! So it?s 100% cloud, no moon, no stars, and it?s pitch black. Steve says it?s like the inside of a cows ass (??!!). If it wasn?t for the instrument lights, we probably couldn?t see our hands in front of our faces. The cool thing though is the phosphorescence in the water - very cool to watch. Hopefully tomorrow it?ll stop raining for 5 mins and settle down enough so we can put the diesel that?s in jerry cans on deck into our diesel tanks. When will the tropical weather kick in? All well on board.

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