[password] STUART32
[position] 16 46.052s 151 29.855w

[date] 2018-07-13
[status] Woo Hoo! we're safely on anchor in Raiatae. Its so good to be back up in French Polynesia and to have this passage behind us. All up we can't complain as most boats that do this passage tend to experience 1-3 gales of 50+ knots; whereas we did not experience a single gale despite leaving in one of the worst two months of the year for gales. It was also a quicker trip than expected, taking us a mere 16 days. Some of the stats of the passage are:
Rhumb Line Distance - 2160nms
Actual Distance - 2418nms
Number Days - 16
Number of Gales - nil
Average Boat Speed - 6.2 knots
Maximum Boat Speed - 10.5 knots
Max Sustained Wind - 25 knots
Max Gust Strength - 30 knots
Engine Hours - 95hrs
Genset Hours - 25hrs
Diesel Used - 314ltrs
Water Used - 528ltrs
Gear Failure - nil
[weather] Not a concern for us today, just in case David is interested though it is light & variable with 5% cloud cover and no swell with 1015 baro
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