[password] Savanna54
[position] 33 28.725s 171 41.450e
[status] Sunday evening, night 6. Still chipping away at the miles, with lighter wind today. Was sunny, and almost warm.

Great sailing with Spinnaker up all day, until after dinner when the wind swung right behind us, and dropped to 10kn - not our favorite or most efficient wind angle, so back on with starboard engine.

Spinnaker lashed to the deck and ready to go back up. Wind forcast to increase around midnight, early AM.

A small bit of excitement today - we saw a ship and some dolphins. And I made a triple decker toasted sandwich for brunch with ham, cheese, banana, egg, onion, chilli.

I created a message in a bottle today and cast that off into the four winds and ocean currents. I would guess it would slowly head west, possibly up into the Pacific or onward to South America and get swept north by the humbodlt current. Would need to find a soft landing somewhere with humans. What are the chances of ever hearing back?

Around happy hour time today the sea got really messy, even though the wind was light. The was a lot of current, and peaky chop from all angles, almost like a reef pass or river mouth flow competing against the wind. We also saw quite a bit of brown stuff (?) in the water. It was very bumpy and not very pleasant for about 40mins, and came and went quite quickly. No evidence of shallower water on the chart. Quite weird. Perhaps some underwater activity.

Chilli con carne, with big round courgettes and a light salad for dinner. One more pre prepared meal to go.

89nm to north cape
158nm to Bay of Islands entrance
202nm to bream head, near Whangerei.
253nm to Auckland

All well on board. Might get to see the land of the long white cloud tomorrow.

[speed] 6kn
[heading] 100M
[weather] 10kn W, 1m N swell, 20% cloud, 1013mb dropping

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