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Still out here

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Along with some of our closest friends we have an ever met and are really not that physically close.

New Zealand bound boats

You can see the gaggle of boats that left Tonga on the right and boats that left Fiji at the top and outer proposed tracks directly into the wind. 😉

I think it might actually called a fleet of boats? if they are only bound by their destination are they actually related? Might just be a group..

The boats look close together, but there is only one boat within 10 miles of us at this point.

All good out here, 750 miles to go. Engines running making progress toward destination. Making water and batteries are full from the motoring. Looking for positives for listening to the engine noise instead of the wind noise. It is getting cooler but still shorts weather. At least 5 more days to go, especially if we don’t get some favorable winds soon, and it looks like it might be another day or so. For now the waves are way down and only 5 knots of wind on the nose so it’s time to catch up on sleep and just relax.

Cheers

First 24 hours to NZ behind us.

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Knocked off 172 miles toward the destination, it only cost us 10 miles or extra distance so far. Most of that was leaving Denaru and getting out of the reefs.

Sunny and still warm. A decent run for day one. The squall line that comes in tonight or tomorrow morning will not be too much fun, but it’ll happen.

Beautiful day, can’t see but it’s a little bit bumpy too

We continue to hammer down and keep the VMG toward NZ up, well should arrive before the cold front. COLD FRONT? Why did we leave Fiji? Oh yeah, boat work and cyclone season is in our future.

Broke out the BBQ Chicken Enchiladas for diner. Can’t go wrong with some good ole enchiladas!

All good on board.
922 miles to destination.

Perfect weather window…

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Well, no perfect weather window for this passage at least does not exist, or rarely does. We lucked into a pretty sweet passage last time we left Fiji for New Zealand.

We waited, analyzed and agonized. Nothing was perfect..

Definitely not a weather window.

We had better already be in New Zealand before the above forecast comes to fruition,, that is a week away. Gives us a week to make this work.

We will be burning some “Dino Juice” (diesel) anytime the wind drops.

On “Our” Thursday, we left around 2pm, 1100 miles to go

All good on board at midnight, keeping an eye on the shipping traffic out here. Cheers, 1021 miles to go. There are also several other boats out here making this run as well, the customs office was very busy today.

Cheers.