[password]Tusi2284
[position]23 51.99S 147 41.22W
[speed]0kn
[heading]090T
[weather]E 15kn gusting 25kn, seas calm inside the reef, cloud cover 100%, baro 1019 steady
[status] At anchor in the port on Raivavae packing up to leave for Tahiti later today. This coming week looks like a mix of poor weather with a front on Tuesday or Wednesday. Because of the murky water visibility below the water surface is 1m with no sun and about 2m with sun so the coral bombies are almost impossible to see as we found out this morning when we hit a coral head fortunately drifting at only 3 kns with the wind behind us. No serious damage, just a few deep gouges on the leading edge of the lead on the very bottom of the keel. However, leason learned! There is no anchorage here that is sheltered as the wind turns with a frontal crossing and navigating safely in adverse conditions is impossible because of the almost zero visibility beneath the water surface. So we're moving on. Tahiti is 400nm to the NNW of here so we should get there on Wednesday FP time or Thursday NZ time.

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