[password] pilot25041
[position] 28 03.75s 156 32.6w
[status] another day rolls by, pretty much the same as the previous few, we're still fairly hard on wind sailing between 50-60 AWA. Similar to Pzazz we reef the headsail at dusk as wind speed increases, but have been sailing with a double reefed main for the last 40hrs, still a very large swell and generally confused sea, but wind direction and strength is a little more stable today.

This morning we found to additional stowaways on board .........2 kamikaze flying fish, who took up residence overnight, unfortunately not big enough to eat, but maybe fish bait to tempt something bigger during today's fishing efforts!

Everyone is in fine spirits on board, although getting a little fed up with the stbd tack uphill sailing! A much brighter day today, we now hope that we have made enough easting, given the predicted weather, to lay Raivavae without tacking.
Position 09.00 nzst. 160nm run in 24hrs, DTG 537nm.
[speed] 7.8kts
[heading] 050T
[weather] 20knts @ 120 , 1.5m swell from the E, 30% cloud cover.

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