[password] Savanna54
[position] 30 16.638s 179 04.270e
[status] Hello friends and family! We're on our way to Tonga, again. Our little mini circular tour of a small patch of the South Pacific has ended, and we start again. The last 24 hrs was a bit tough, with big winds, steep breaking swells pushing us in the wrong direction. Boat and crew all did well. A new top speed of 14.4kn was recorded. And a max of 42kn of wind.. not quite the 50kn we had leaving Auckland. Sea state is still quite messy now, but we're looking fwd to it cleaning up a bit over next 6 hrs as we follow the wind and curve around to the north again. With the conditions we had 2 on shift for 3 hours rotating last night.. Shayne and Cyrus, and D and K teamed up. No moon, but quite a lot of lightning all around. Suns out, going the right way, all good on board :)
[speed] 5kn
[heading] 60M
[weather] 15kn NW, 1.5m N swell, wind chop from all over, 10% cloud, 1015mb
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.