AWOB. They enjoyed a breakfast in the cockpit this morning. ETA late monday into Tuesday.

going well. All well. Advised to not break anything so that he had plenty of shackles left for the 27th!

going well. All good on board

3pob heading for Opua. All well. Good clear radio signal from Mike.

motored most of the night as wind in the 10kt range. They will get 25kt tomorrow though so that will keep them busy

great radio signll this morning from Mike. Greetings to all our neighbours enjoying school holidays in the Island rain instead of Gulf Harbour rain.

Arrived yesterday at 9.30 am and all checked in and ready to roll.. Ian an Kevin fly home tomorrow and the first day f the visitors arrive. Helen arrives Tuesday to celebrate retirement.

sailing. Their alternator is wired direct to battery so dont know why there is noise when motoring.

We started early this morning, 0430, when the wind rose to 35 gusting 45knots over a period of about 15mins with pouring rain. Rather a rude awakening! We held ok and by midday it was down to 20-25knots so we left for North Minerva sailing with headsail only. After a rolly ride in 4m waves we anchored here at 1650. It was supposed to be low tide but the reef was awash presumably because of the 4m

t's been a great day here. The weather improved, somewhat unexpectedly, and was sunny for long spells. We've been snorkelling twice in crystal clear water with lots of fish. We're planning to head for North Minerva reef tomorrow, a distance of about 20nm. If we get there early enough we're going to hunt for crays under the boulders on top of the reef. We'll be there Monday so will get another chan

Approaching South Minerva, 75nm to go, ETA 0700 tomorrow.

Wow, the radio works! They are actually 3nm south of S Minerva so I guess they will have cray fish for dinner..

All good. Have had lots of sleep. A bit noisy with the motor on all the time. We are just under 200nm to S Minerva and will slow down to arrive around 10am Friday. Shorts and T shirts out except at night.

Not much to report today. The wind has stayed down, less than 5 knots and variable so we've been motoring since early this morning. Lots of sun so shorts and t-shirts. We're about 300nm from Opua and 480nm from Minerva. It's looking like light winds for the next 3-4 days so we're probably going to be motoring for most of the way. Just finished dinner and getting ready for the night.

6am report. Monday.The wind has died completely but the sun is out. Still a bit rolly . Cold at night

left today from opua and after a small delay when autopilot did not work they are off again to Minerva. There was air to bleed off so as they are very good and removing oil and bleeding off air and refilling with oil this job was done speedily. Off again truely at 1530NZST