[password]VA7SDR
[status] Land HO!I can see Tonga, 21 27 S - 175 44 W. Sighed land just at daybreak under the clouds! Wind now dropped to south of east, pinching up hill in building breeze. Hope we get a land shadow for the seas.
[heading]023T
[speed] 7.5kts
[weather], ENE, 12-18, 30% cloud cover, 1.5m E swell with a one foot chop and a SE swell developing on top, Bar 1020 steady[END]
The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.