[password] rachel25
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[position]37 25.596s 166 50.902w
[status] On passage to Valdivia, Chile from Auckland NZ. Light winds all yesterday and overnight making for slow but very comfortable progress. Also allows the crew to show off their cordon bleu skills in the galley. The fresh food is still very fresh - crunchy apples and carrots, sweet chilled pineapple and, last night some delicious pork steaks. Lucas made his own mayonaise recipe, Ana baked bread and even the skipper managed to get in the galley to cook the evening meal. Lucas' herb garden is beginning to spread around his cabin thanks to some good Ponsonby loam. (Thanks John). Cathy, alas your moist Christmas cake is no more, we saw off the last of it yesterday.
I imagine our course looks rather a slalom which indeed it is. Yesterday the wind was from the ESE so we were heading NE. It continued to back, ahead of the next front, so just after midnight we tacked onto port. Suddenly all the little safe corners where you put things like books and I-pads became unsafe and today we will learn how to live leaning the other way. Those of you with catamarans won't understand this I know!
Rubic continues to beat me - not much progress there. Ana has pinched my new book (she often does this). It's a present from Kiapa and it had her snorting and chuckling all afternoon. The unlikely voyage of Jack de Crow.

[speed] 5.0 kts
[heading] 120 true
[weather] Wind ENE 10 knots. 0.5m waves. Sky 100% cloud cover. Bar 1024.
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