11/04/2007, about 40 nm north of Minerva
My apologies in advance if it sounds like I'm gloating, but it does not get much better than this...
The sun is out, the sky is blue, and the sea is this most amazing azure / indigo sort of blue... we've got 15kts of wind on our port beam and we are making a little better than 6kts in 2m seas...
Morgan wanted to do a little motor sailing to charge the batteries as well as speed us up a bit (so we can have some daylight left when we get to Minerva)... so I figured I would spin up Great Big Sea on the laptop... Although we aren't quite in Newfoundland, it seems perfect for right now... maybe a little Jimmy Buffet next :^)
Hope all is well back home, because all is great here... on that note, time to request an updated grib file.
Take care, Peter J.
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11/03/2007, somewhere in between Tongatapu and Minevera Reefs
My bags showed up, so we left Tonga a little after 1330 local time Saturday. So, here we are, sailing our arses off in around 15 kts of wind making well over 7kts over ground... Heeled over about 25 degrees to starborad, and I'm inside typing and trying not to puke all over Morgan's laptop.
Weather has been pretty good, although the winds were a little light coming out of NukuAlofa, so a long motor-sail was in order... but at least our batteries got nice and topped up.
Winds are mostly cooperating for Mostly Harmless, and we have been able to maintain a rhumb line course to the Minerva Reefs.
We caught a nice little tuna yesterday; looking forward to cooking that little bad boy up.
Anyhow, hope all is well back home; next report should be from Minerva.
Peter.
(and Morgan says "hi", too)
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10/31/2007, Tonga - Nuku'Alofa - still
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Not sure if anyone is reading this, but I'm having fun figuring out all the cool electronics on Mostly Harmless... this HAM email system is really cool...
Today was mostly sightseeing around the island of Tongatapu... Morgan has already seen most of it (he's been here for around 3 weeks now), so he humored me and showed me all the cool stuff... A Tongan version of Stonehenge, some big ass bats (same wingspan as a seagull), blowholes (according to the locals, if you whistle and make noise, the blow hole gods get angry and spray water even higher), a few caves, a totally deserted white sand beach, and the place where Captain Cook made his landing on the Island.
Oh, and good news / bad news about my bags... they found out where they were (good news), but they won't be here until Saturday (they think) (bad news) ... :^/
If they do show on the Saturday morning flight, we'll probably be weighing anchor and continuing south to New Zealand that afternoon... I'm looking forward to my first offshore sailing...
- Peter J.
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