[password] beeskiff
[position] 21 57.434s 171 28.700e
[status] Spent a bit of fuel motor sailing yesterday, trying to keep on a schedule that would get us to Havannah channel on an incoming tide as our info is it can be really rough with 4 knots outgoing tide against wind. Also obviously would like the tide assistance going our way through there and Woodin channel too. If we can keep good speeds we hope to get there by 4pm Wednesday. This could well be a bridge too far, but we will see what we can do in the increasing SE breeze over the next couple days.
We have also been trying to get some southing in, in anticipation of the building breeze to try to have an easier angle when it gets to the 25 knots forecast.
Had a bit of frustration trying to set the loose luff furling gennaker. After going to the effort of rigging it up we started hoisting but half way up the 2:1 halyard twisted around itself and got stuck, wouldn't move up or down. I had to go up the mast to get it down.
Breeze filled in later in the day and we've been sailing nicely on a broad reach ever since.
Caught a little Bonito at dusk, a very red bloody fish. We would have thrown it back but it was too far gone so we will have to see what it tastes like.
[speed] 7.5
[heading] 250T
[weather] 15kt SE 1m swell from the SE 50% cloud cover.

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