[password] beeskiff
[position] 31 17.168s 153 32.400e
[status] Last night the wind gradually came around to the NE then NNE and we poled out the jib around sunset. A brief period of lighter wind from behind necessitated motor sailing for a couple of hours, but the wind came back and we?ve been grooving along with wind and waves from behind.
Early this morning the wind had gone far enough to the North that it was time to gybe, also to stay in the best current flow. At the moment we are going really well on port gybe, full working sails with poled out jib. The current is about 1.5 knots, not as good as it has been but we are positioning to get into a stronger stream later if the BOM forecast is correct.
We have had friendly dolphins visit 4 times so far, last time was sunset yesterday. This never gets old, we love to go up on the bow and watch them play.
Looking at the weather forecasts this morning we are probably not going to stop before Pittwater. A small front is coming through tonight but if we stop to avoid it we will end up with very little wind on Wednesday so not really worth it. Think it?s best to make miles while the sun shines (between rain squalls).
[speed] 9 knots
[heading] 210T
[weather] 20 knots N, 30% cloud cover, rain squalls, 1.5m waves from the NE

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