[password] rachel25
[position]36 40.300s 114 19.00w
[status] On passage to Valdivia, Chile from Auckland NZ.

Blue desert. Are we the only 3 living beings left on this earth? The birds have gone. There is just blue....sea....and sky. We slide along in 20 knots of wind, just a little trimming required now and then to maintain our easterly course.
The tropical low, which caused me some lost sleep a week ago as I wondered how we would find our way past its gale force clutches, has been our driving force for the last 750 miles. The ogre became our friend thanks to Bruce's detailed directions which steered us through the weakest areas and then hitched us onto the system just ahead of the strong winds and rain. Consequently we have sailed the 750 miles under blue skies and in calm seas. Now our friend is moving away to the south and its sister is coming to join us in a few days time. Bruce is starting to work out our best strategy for hitching another ride.
We are receiving many comments through the YIT system and our e mail. Thank you so much. The contact and content means a lot. YIT does not give the e mail address of those sending comments so we are unable to reply unless we know your address already. If you would like us to have your address please include it in the text.
Ana here. After receiving an email yesterday from Paula, Lucas's mum, with the empanados Argentinean family recipe, Lucas and I decided to have another session of making them again. I noted the dough recipe is identical to my mum's Slovenian strudel dough, but without sugar. Three fillings were made. After about the 15th attempt, mine only began to resembled Lucas' perfectly formed empanados with fancy twisted edges. The gallery was a mess, but it was lovely to learn how to make them, and have the time to make them from scratch.

[speed] 7.0 knot
[heading] 090 true
[weather] Wind NNW 14 knots. 1.0m waves. Sky 80% cloud. Baro 1015,
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