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sailing nicely in 20 knots, ran one motor for half a hour last night when the wind dropped briefly to 10 knots.
Have cleaned 4 flying fish off the decks. All well on board.
Red Wine Beef Casserole for dinner last night, thank you Jillian. All good on board.
Still making good progress in 17-23 knot of wind from the east.
We departed Denarau at 9.00am this morning for Opua, with Glen, David and Karl on board.
Sailing in 20-30 knots in 2-2.5 metre seas, a bumpy start to the passage.
We are on the marina at Denarau, Fiji waiting for a weather window to depart for Opua. It currently looks like there will be a window to depart somewhere between Monday and Friday next week.
Making slower progress, we have 73 nm to go to Nuku'alofa will arrive about 9.00pm tonight.
210nm to Nuku'alofa, still hoping to arrive tomorrow afternoon. We motored most of the night and turned the engine off at 4.30am and are now sailing in 15-20 knots of wind.
Making good progress, hope to be in to Nuku'alofa late Wednesday afternoon, 388 nm to go well over half way.
We spent all night motoring with less than ten knots of wind. Still motoring with the wind not forecast increase until this evening.