[password] Bri44angel
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[position] 17 41.18s 177 22.85e
[status] All is well that ends well! And here we are on the quarantine buoy at Vuda Marina, Fiji, awaiting our check-in first thing in the morning. The bottle of champagne gone now and the boat still at last, after a trying 8 days 21 hours at sea since leaving Marsden Cove (our fastest passage yet to the islands!), in some of the most trying conditions we have yet encountered; we would almost rather have a full fledged storm where we could heave-to and ride it out in a day or so, than the continuous 4 or 5 days of force 7 nonsense (near gale, 28-33 knot winds with heaped up seas and breaking waves) that we encountered this trip. But every day is a school day, and we have certainly learned a few things from this experience, and as the last drop of bubbly disappeared we were talking of the good times to come here in Fiji, and not of the past few days getting here. So, indeed, all is well on board the good ship Bright Angel tonight - until someone tries to wake me for my watch!
[speed] 0 knots
[heading] Nowhere for a while
[weather] Wind ese 7, gusting 9 (that's wind?); swell zip; 40% cloud cover;bar 1011.8, rising.
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