Picture of Yesterday's good weather.

We have had to use more diesel overnight in light winds as we approached this last cold front from the Tasman. The winds ahead of the front backed from the NW ahead of the front and is now Southerly in its wake. The worst we had was 25kts - so we have got off lightly. Beating to windward in the big blue is different from harbour racing and our VMG towards New Zealand is a paltry 2.5kts at the moment - its a long way still go but we are still hopeful in making it before Sunday 3rd October. There is more motoring ahead which will need to be done quite carefully due to our lack of diesel.