Opps! I put 14 deegrees yesterday by mistake, but it was pretty rough so that's my story and I'm sticking to it! Today was better, only a couple of storm cells that we had to dodge and luckily, didn't hit us. Due to all the motoring we've had to do, we are stopping at Rangrioa for a fuel stop, and to catch up on sleep. The past days have been very sleepless for me as George was under the weather so to speak. But, today, he is much better and getting back to his old self. Me, I'm just bushed. We won't make the pass into Rangrioa this afternoon, so we get to "hover" overnight, then make our way in. Probably drift and sail around in circles around the southern section of the island so as to use it as a breakwater. If fact, the seas are laying down and we are about 12 miles from there. Not a great idea to enter a strange harbor at night. Pierre gave us the phone number of a good friend of his, that will tell us how the currents and tides are in the morning. Also we will check out of French Polynessia here. Then the north winds won't bother us when we leave as we will be heading in a northea sterly direction to get to the equator and 140 degrees west longitude. The ITCZ is at it's narrowest there according to NOAA. Other than all that, we are doing fine, just wish we did'nt have strong head winds from the direction we needed to go today. Was so much looking forward to plunking down the anchor and getting 12 hours sleep!! end