Heading for New Zealand is an interesting concept in that to get there you generally don't head for it. We are heading for New Zealand but at the moment are on course for Sydney. Reason - winds. The theory is that if we head fairly West of our destination we should be able to get a better angle towards New Zealand. The reason for this is that we are travelling from one weather system to another. A tropical system dominated by Easterlies to a temperate weather system dominated by Westerlies. The irony is that when we move into the Southern system it looks as if we will hit strong Southerlies. Still at present the strong winds that powered us out of New Caledonia have died down and we have light winds and have had to put an engine on. Tomorrow we will probably have to decide whether to stop at Norfolk Island or carry on towards, using that word advisedly, to New Zealand. Our preference is to carry on without stopping at Norfolk this time.