[password] beeskiff
[position] 31 51.290s 154 33.667e
[status] Around 11:30 pm AEST last night the wind came back and has built to a solid 25 knots from the NNW. We?ve been sailing rapidly all night with staysail to leeward and poled out jib to windward (now half furled), mainsail down. Loving this configuration for strong downwind, if the jib backs the staysail keeps the speed for the autopilot to be able to turn the boat and recover.
We have been getting some current assistance in a northerly eddy of the east coast current and we have now hit a strong maybe 3 knots ESE flow of the main coastal current bending out. This is making it hard to follow our preferred routing of making some north to ensure we are over a low developing in a couple days. However with good speed through the water the current is giving us excellent SOG towards Lord Howe, seeing lots of 10s.
In the pitch black after the sliver of moon set there was a really special show of phosphorescent dolphins lighting up the water.
[speed] 8.5
[heading] 80T
[weather] 25kt WNW 1.5m swell from the W 15% cloud cover.

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