[password] Ridingmore
[position] 30 26S 177 59.5E
[weather]10-15 knots from SW
[status] Hello the world!
Thanks all for sending through the news on Biden v the Orangutan - tis great news indeed! And sorry to any orang-utans that took offence to that comment - I'm sure you are much smarter than oranguman!

Thanks also for the lime recipes - hopefully we'll get that started today!

[password] Ridingmore
[position] 28 45S 178 59.5E
[weather]10-15 knots from NW
[status] Hello you lovely people!

We've been blessed with stellar winds and flat water over the last 18 hours, and have managed to turn 30 degrees to port and aim straight at Opua, which is a good feeling. And the wind is, at least for the moment, holding on the beam at 12-15 knots - perfect! Lets see what that low which is about to roll over the top of NZ does for our breeze over the next couple of days, before we get too excited about arrival times!

[password] Ridingmore
[position] 26 54S 178 56.5W
[weather]6-10 knots from N
[status] Kia ora lovely people!

[password] Ridingmore
[position] 26 21S 175 49W
[weather]10-12 knots from NE

[password] Ridingmore
[position] 26 41S 173 39W
[weather]12-18 knots from E
[status] Just a quick update as we have had a busy day trying to fix things (thanks for the suggestions Max), and jump over international datelines and bake cakes and design tree houses and stuff. Wind has dropped back to about 15 knots and straight up the bum - not how we like it particularly. We've jibed and currently heading WNW - not towards Opua! We're working on it, all good!

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[password] Ridingmore
[position] 24 21.8S 170 36.4W
[weather]18-25 knots from SE

[password] Ridingmore
[position] 22 28.9S 167 49W
[weather]12-18 knots from SE
[status] Kia ora all!
Patea is doing well - we collectively decided that hand steering isn't too onerous, and especially Selma has come leaps and bounds, and is now providing a perfectly steady (and not nervous at all) hand on the ship!