Marquesas Inbound Day 1

Hi everyone,
At noon today we were at 04 39S 094 22W steering 250M, sailing under double-reefed main and single-furled yankee at 6 knots.  The wind was 15G19 from the SE.  Our noon to noon distance by the log was 136nm.  We've logged 1374nm so far and our distance to go is 2668nm.

Moon and Venus in the pre-dawn  today

Normally we change from outbound to inbound post titles at the half-way mark.  We're varying that here to suits a passage of two distinct parts - reaching the trades, then riding them to the Marquesas.

Yesterday afternoon a set of rainstorms passed us by, starting on our port quarter and disappearing on our stbd bow.  We got only a little drizzle from them and varying wind speed.  Overall it was a nice afternoon's sail with quite a lot of sun before the rainstorms.

The WindPilot is doing the steering work easily.  It needs a balanced sail plan which is why we have the main reefed down to trisail size.  The apparent wind is just aft of the beam so we're not having to gybe down-wind, at least not yet.  If the wind stays in the SE it'll be a single leg all the way to the Marquesas.

The booby on our bow gave us a show of fishing for his dinner around the boat yesterday afternoon.  He returned to preen then off he went.  Later in the evening he (or another booby) took up residence on our goalpost.  Unacceptable.  The super-soaker didn't evict him so we gave our air horn a try.  Success!

The screenshot below shows we're gradually edging away from Onyx and Xora to our N.  Zen Again's loving this weather.  We're enjoying it too.  The main annoyance is the inevitable rolling with wind and swell on our beam.  There's a 2m swell running.

PredictWind GPS Tracking

Trust all's well where you are!