We are beginning to home in on our arrival time in NZ - subject to all the normal caveats, wind gods, etc... We have confirmed that, to avoid being carted off to managed isolation, we can't arrive before 3:30pm NZ time on Friday 15th Oct. We have just over 300 miles to go and three days to cover it. So 100 miles per day on average. It looks like we may be able to sail some but will have to motor some as well. But at least we have a plan.

Arriving late on Friday may present us with a problem getting our COVID tests done. This may not happen until after the weekend. So at this point we are expecting to arrive and to then be isolated on the boat for two or three days until we pass fourteen days, including sea time, and get tested and processed.

Around mid day today we reached a waypoint that was deemed to be a good place to be when the cold front came through, which it did. It is always interesting to watch these things come through at sea. A great big dark line in the sky passed over us, the wind immediately backed about 90 degrees and the temperature dropped. We reefed and started making best course to windward.

We are currently 233 miles from the closest point of land on New Zealand.