A Day Light
28 September 2014 | En Route to Vava'u, Tonga
Monday 29 September 2014
Although the day is shown as Monday, it's not. The label is strictly a technicality as we've decided to skip it and spread return of those 24 hours over the next few years in dribs and drabs as we transition time zones. By carefully doing so on Tuesday through Sunday, we can effectively blow off an entire and ostensibly less desirable day. We'll shoot for Fridays and Saturdays.
Speaking of Saturday, got the last one wrong. Mistakenly labeled that day's prattle as Friday the 26th. If anyone is foolish enough to read this at some time in the not too distant future and go take a look, it will have been corrected (sending these things can be done with HF radio, but fixing them requires internet) and you'll wonder what the idiot is talking about. In that case expunge this paragraph from your computer and your memory and continue on with your life as if nothing happened. It's for your own good.
Two day passage to Neiafu has been all right so far. Wind too far aft and rolly, but we've made good time and haven't beat up the sails very much. Other boats that also left Saturday went more direct, but, no matter utmost confidence in welding, we jibed a bit with reefed genoa to ease stress on forestay screw. Despite the zigzags, made 150 miles last 24 hours. Regrettably, wind is easing, as predicted, but so far declining to back, so progress from this point might be a tad more sedate. Still anticipate arrival early morning followed by at least a month of exclusively daysails.
Jack