Another one of those same day at sea days today. One bite on the fishing lines which triggered the nut alarm. Nothing on the end of the line though. Absolutely nothing. Lure, weight, leader, swivel and clip all gone. Put on another set but nothing else for the rest of the day.
On the morning net we learned that the boats that set off a day behind us have had to motor some of the time. Looks like we got lucky. The wind has died down a little so we’re doing less (but some) regeneration. We’re still on track to arrive earlier than slack tide on the 29th but by less of a margin.
I also learned that slack water is about an hour to an hour and a half after low water and at the same time as high tide. This gives us an extra margin for entry into the lagoon at Kauehi as we’re scheduled to make low tide around 11am. The pass at Kauehi is quite wide so we may be able to enter it before slack but we’ll figure that out when we’re there.
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