[password] kudzuu1114
[position]31 18.70S 153 54.10E
[status] Date & Time of Report: 05:00 Sunday 18 October 2015
[speed] 5.9
[heading] 213T
[weather] WIND: NNE 10kts. x SWELL: Insignificant. BARO: 1025.3. TEMP: 73F. We've been motoring for more than 24 hours. Well, not quite. There was that overly optimistic moment when I (Bev) thought I could raise the main, prevent the boom 'way out and sail in 12kts dead astern. After all my effort the winds promptly returned to 7kts and I got half an hour's practice in raising and lowering the sail and turning in circles. At the present rate we'll arrive Newcastle at 08:00 on Monday. Serendipitously that's the time I hit with the dart last week and that's what I declared to be our arrival time on our original yacht report to the AU authorities. (Nevermind that it was for Bundaberg, not Newcastle.) It has been unusual on this passage to find the weather growing warmer each day. We've both cut back on the cool weather gear for night watches. It's five degrees F warmer tonight than it was the first night out of Noumea. Is this El Nino? (I blame all incomprehensible pheno
mena on El Nino.) All said, the seas are calm, we're comfy as can be and it's a bit difficult to believe we're climbing into higher latitudes so easily and comfortably. Yay for that! Thank you, David and Patricia, for YIT. We've used several position reporting apps, and YIT is our favourite! Your time and efforts are very much appreciated aboard SY Mersoleil![END]