No problems today. In fact, quite the opposite. We caught a small but dinner for four sized mahi mahi which Helen cooked up very well. I also had an excellent response from my efforts to source and deliver new battens for our head sail. After lots of offers from friends up in Opua and Whangarei we now have spares aboard Endless who, due to our mutual schedules, we’re certain to meet around Denarau in June/July if not sooner.
Haven’t made any progress on the batten cars as I’m not getting any responses from the guy I last conversed with on this. Ordering parts for the traveller repair will have to wait until Savusavu.
A milestone passed yesterday was the halfway point which is now over 100nm behind us. With better second half speeds we should be in Savusavu next Tuesday.
The winds have moved round more to the east than the forecasts suggest putting the wind ahead of us and making the ride a little bumpy. We’ve kept two reefs in the main overnight, despite rarely needing any, to reduce stress on the traveller. It’s all holding up ok so far. If it all survives this trip we can look to have spares sent to Denarau where we’ll be in June.
All is well aboard.
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