Day 6 NZ to Oz Position S34.08 E157.05

It’s been a hard night’s day! All was running along
smoothly with calm seas and a good breeze – on starboard tack all day but
then about 5pm something must’ve upset the sea because it really started
to have a tantrum! All through the night it’s been kicking up a fuss.
Doesn’t make for a very comfortable ride – sleeping becomes hard
work because you have to try to compensate for the rapid movements all the
time. Even sitting typing this I’m having to move around and I keep
hitting the wrong keys! The adverse current seems to have slackened
considerably so we are currently bowling along on a close reach at around 9
knots! The wind is due to die off a bit early afternoon and go ahead again
then we’ll have another small front to go through before we hit southerlies
– no idea what the sea will do – let’s hope it calms down a
bit. Got about 300m to go, so still looking like a Tuesday arrival. Apart from
that all is well – no ships on the AIS, no sea creatures but a whole
family of albatross (albatrosses/albatossi?) sitting on the sea yesterday
– a couple of adults and several youngsters just floating around (that
was when the sea was calm) – cute! 24 hour distance: 181 miles |