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pos: 16 53.890s 144 32.430w
sp: 6.5
h: 334m
w: 5kn ESE, CC , SS 0.5 - 1.0M SE
d: 02/06/19 07:20 GMT+600

We are definatley in a different climate zone, light airs and warm enough to sleep outside in a T shirt. A gorgeous night with lots of luminescence and the Milky Way very clear. At first light, having motor sailed most of the night, we were directly in the middle of the channel between Tahanea & Motutunga. I had to fine tune the radar to get a reflection & confirm that coconut trees don't give much reflection. These low lying atolls are hard to see, even during the day, it's little wonder the early sailors avoided them, I don't think they had radar either, mmm. Ahh, they did have rum and i can confirm it helps, at many different levels.
We hooked up a big fish at sundown last night and the big Penn reel just screamed out, whoa, slow the boat down and we bought this big tuna to the back, slowly with a lot of strain and lost it getting it to the transom, Sefton with the gaff at the ready. The other line was just taken, ping, one of our good lures gone, bugger.
Sliding down the side of the reef now, motus in sight, birds around, no other fish yet, but hoping. Hope to be in the pass and anchored by abt 10am, swim time.

Isn't it nice of Queenie to give most of you a day off!

Capt'n T
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