[p] Vanuatu
[pos] 21 85.91s 167 06.20e
[s] motoring under bright sunny skies and zero wind. The sea is glassy calm and 24deg. We are finally all catching up on sleep after an uneventful night - ran out of wind around 1500 yesterday and have had the motor on since.
We passed Ilse Lifou in the early hours this morning and turned our heading towards Canal de la Havannah - our entry point into the reef system that surrounds New Cal. We have about 4 1/2 hours to cover the remaining 26nm. ETA there is currently 1600hrs - we are pushing the current all the way.
We were thinking of trailing a line - but there is so much food on board we need to focus on eating that!
Expect our anchor down at Noumea around midnight tonight - customs formalities in the morning, followed by new crew arrivals later in the day.
It will be an interesting night threading our way through the reef system and up the SW coast to Noumea - but we understand that the charts here are excellent as are the channel markers, so not too worried about that.

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