Yesterday Wednesday was a fantastic sail all day running just with the MPS in very comfortable and cruisy conditions. This would be the most comfortable ocean passage (but one of the slowest) I have done, but great to get a good sail in at last. We sailed into the Roti Straits at the 'bottom' of Timor Island last night and trangressed our way carefully through a number of lit and unlit fishing boats to get around into the channel between West Timor and Pulau Semau Island at about 2.00am this morning. We dropped an anchor then and spent the night to awaken this morning and motor up the channel to Kupang. A number of the boats that we had been sailing with the past few days came into the channel this morning also and followed the way up to Kupang.

It seems some of the boats that came up the channel through the night had ïssues with local lit and ulnlit fishing boats so we were glad that we had anchored up.

We have cleared Quarantine at Kupang with two charming gentlemen and are just awaiting customs now, but their boat has been dragging anchor so they have had a few issues.

It was a very easy and smooth crossing, with the only bit of swell in the last afternoon but then a long rolling comfortable swell.

So here we are, Kupang looks interesting and the people are so friendly. Looking forward to getting ashore and having a look around.