Kiapa - December 8, 2016

By kiapa on

[position]35 18.784S 174 07.347E
[speed]0k
[heading]to bed
[status]It's 3am and we have just pulled up on the Customs dock in Opua. Enjoying a lurvely cuppa tea before we head to bed. Had a great few hours of sailing earlier - even had the spinny up for about 4 hours - but ended up motoring the last little while as the wind died off and came more and more from behind. All in all a fabulous passage from Vanuatu. Big thanks to Jo and Mods for helping make it so.
[weather]0k . Swell 0m 100% black night sky.
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Sel Citron - December 7, 2016

By Sel_Citron on

[password] catana521
[position] 33 24.86e 172 34.15e
[status] Several of our emails went missing inexplicably yesterday....
We motor-sailed through the afternoon and evening. All good until the
2am change of watch when we tried to shake out the reef and ... nothing
happened. Bit of a hiccup with the main halyard which saw us heading NE,
head to wind, for a couple of hours while we sorted stuff out. Why do
these things only happen in the middle of the night?? On the positive
side, the sea was calm and there was almost no wind and we don't have

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