[password] Tsar12
[position] 19 20.83S 148 68.56W
[weather] wind 3-5 knots NE seas glassy calm clear sky
[status] yesterday afternoon the wind filled in enough for us to sail at 4-6 knots into the evening . Sunset was stunning as normal with a full moon on the other horizon - makes you feel you are somewhere special when you see it like this - just wish there was some wind though !
Wind died during early hours so motored from 4 am - still motoring at 5 pm so boat def getting lighter in diesel!
Gribs suggest wind will fill in a little tonight so would be good to turn the motor off and sail the last part to Papeete.
All going well we will get there tomorrow afternoon and will immediately look for a suitable engineering place to help fix our bearing for the er a month away now will feel funny getting to civilisation again- but certainly need to catch up on emails so wifi will be good ,plus beers:)
Slowly making our way through the excessive lot of bananas that we bought -
Banana pancakes for breakfast and a banana cake a day are standard fare.
Will be good to think that after 800 nm of handsteeing we will have an auto pilot again v shortly !

Note: Sending a brief description of the weather you are experiencing is a great help to David and Patricia (Gulf Harbour Radio) for monitoring the weather.

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