[password] Fra17099
[position] 29 49S 165 34E
[speed] 6.0
[heading] 285T
[weather] 6 kts N, slight swell, 5% cloud, baro 1012 hPa.
[status] all well, motoring since 0600 UTC, waiting for the new winds to arrive.[END]

[password] Holden02
[position] 24 44s 179 30e
[status] Yet another great day & night reaching in beautiful conditions. 08-14kn SE. Ran Code 0 all day & thru the night.
Even though it boys only delivery a chick turned up on deck last night. I thought it was a Surefooted Big Breasted Brown Boobie but Tony W will have to confirm fm our photos. As you would expect, she shat all over the windows & left this morning without any thankyou. We are all defriending her from facebook.
ETA Sth Minerva 1600 .
[speed] 7.5
[heading] 030T

[password} cheznous4000
[position] 25 07 s 179 53 w
[weather] SE 8 kts., 5%, 1017 steady, SE swell 0.5m., clear
[speed] 5.5
[heading 020M
[status] Bound for N Minerva then departing for Vanua Balavu either Saturday pm or Sunday am for a May 25 sufferance port clearance in.[END]

[p]wa142809
[pos]24 08.840s 179 21.174w
[sp]7kn
[h]008m
[w]8-10kn NE winds with half mtr SE swell. Fine with 30% cloud cover. Bar 1017
[s]Another motor sail night until about 0100hrs when we got a bit of sail 12-15kn Easterlies. Motoring now tho doing 7 kn. Only a couple of hours to go and we will be in South Minerva for a snorkel with with our friends from Moonfish who are just a couple of miles ahead and then later we will go into North Minerva for a party. It looks like another sunny day ahead.
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[password]Kiapa52
[position]26 08.154S 179 35.479E
[speed]5.5k
[heading]27t
[status]After listening to various SSB net schedules yesterday and this morning, what I am picturing right now is not quite the ITCZ, but the NMCZ - the North Minerva Convergence Zone. Yip, it sounds like the proverbial 'ants to the honey pot' as those of us who left NZ last weekend get closer and closer to what, I think, is going to be rather a festive anchorage. Those poor crayfish, they must be crawling further back in their holes.....
[weather]3 SE . Swell 1.0m . 60% blue sky.
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[password] SYWHYNOT
[position]30 42s 163 23w
[status] Day 10: Slow and rolly after midnight. Light breeze filling in. Sailing wing on wing now and making decent progress.
[speed] 5.8
[heading] 070T
[weather] 12-15knts WSW, 5m swell S, 90% cloud cover, Barometer very slow rise
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