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NZ Bound #3: 760 till the bouncing ceases

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Champagne sailing still elusive, but we do have Mr Toads wild and Willy ride.

Winds, Waves and Water We got em all, or is that beer bait and ammo?

The clouds summoned the winds for a crazy party last night, still glad we only had scraps of sails showing. They must have one heck of a party up there, hooting and hollering some 35 knots of wind making a general nuisance of them selves. The saving grace was they must have been a part of my generation and no longer needed to whooop it up till day break and shut the party down about midnight and left the younger generation to carry on. The younger generation had nothing compared to the old timers they could only muster mid 20s level excitement. Must have been too busy staring at a device of some sorts.

All in all, a bouncy windy night but this morning is looking promising

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Sun rise miles from no where.

All well onboard after the wind party we all got some pretty good sleep. Hopeful we will find at least some Prosecco sailing today, raising a little more sail this morning since the winds are for the first time under 20 kts.

NZ Bound #3: 896 nm left to find Champgne

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Well 24 hrs down, plenty to go. The search for champagne sailing continues. Stomping grapes more adequately describes the seas out here. We did have a few hours of sparkling wine, not even Prosecco, where the wind and waves agreed on which direction to bounce us around. We all got some good solid rest during those precious hours before returning to the salt mine.

We might be starting a new business. Deep Water Salt, made from only happy salt. Happy salt jumps out of the ocean, sun dried and delivered fresh to your table. Since Deep Water Salt is happy, its also good for all your friends with high blood pressure.

New batch of happy salt jumping onboard.

Stop by in NZ and you can claim your very own.

Ps. Thats a puny small splash, that’s all I could get a picture of without getting drenched

All well onboard, knocked out 186 miles direct to NZ, the boat traveled 197 miles so even if it is bouncy we are doing well with barely 1/3 of our available sails. We have had 2 reefs in both sails since we started.

NZ Bound #3 1082 nm till quality craft brews

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22 boats left Wednesday, we waited another day when only 5 boats left. What did we miss? We heard on the SSB that there was champagne sailing out there, so in search of that we go.

Looks a bit sporty?

We are now just about 12 hours into the journey and if we had any champagne it certainly would be shook up and have lost all its great effervescence.

We had a Mexican night onboard, enchiladas and rice, and a salt covered boat, just missing the rest of the margarita.

Still searching for champagne.

Cheers, All well onboard, at least another day of bouncing along.