Wednesday 9 December 2009 10:30am EDT
In the Tasman Sea 465 nm East of Coffs Harbour
32 35S 161 58 E tlog 18484 (start 18005)
Boat speed 7-10, wind N-NE 20 - 30 knots, COG 105t
Distance to top of NZ 509nm
Barometer 1022.1 #2 jib #4 reef main
171 nm -24 hr run Noon to Noon
Greetings from the Tasman Passagemakers,
Now down to business of getting the miles behind us. Boat doing 7 to 10 in 25 knots , surfing a bit, and generally giving the crew a rough old time. Watches reduced from 3 to 2 hours using #2 Job and #4 reef in the main. Saw 13.7 last night.
Yesterday afternoon, tooled past LHI on it's West coast - quite the lump of rock - what is left of a massive volcano caldera - spotted Balls Pyramid and headed out for NZ. Salad a' la Robert - v nice, then dinner of DG spaghetti sauce which was great just before the v rough weather started up - still with us - wine wine wine.
Your rough weather crew
