[password] Bri44angel
[gulfharbor]
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[position] 28 02.259S 166 41.886W
[status] We are certainly on a slow boat to Tahiti - and it's going to get slower before it heats up! Winds are dying off, and forecast to go really light over the next day or so! "Ugh - not the motor, Please!" Today 's 24 hr run was 110 nm; we have covered 1120 nm since we left Whangarei 10 days ago (not all in a straight line, to be sure!). But all in all, it has been a fairly easy passage so far - bright blue skies and calm seas means lots of reading will get done today; my choice from the library today is Woody Guthrie's "House of Earth" - interestingly, albeit a passionate subject matter for him, the book, finished in 1947, was never published in his lifetime. Well, enough of the literature class for today, I'm headed back to the cockpit with my book! "All is well on board!"
[speed] 4.5 kts
[heading] 060T
[weather] Winds ESE 8-11; seas - 1.5 m SE swell, wind waves 1 m ESE; 10% cu cloud cover; bar 1015.29, falling - last 3 hrs -02.0.
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A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.