I’m going to cheat a little and start writing these before I go to bed, I know that there’s technically 4 more hours to go until the end of the day, but if anything amazing happens I will just do a extra one or bolt it on to the next days entry.<\/p>\n

The 02:00 shift was fine, still bumpy and crashing into the waves, but we were making good progress.<\/p>\n

A couple of milestones firstly that about midday we had been sailing for 100 hours, the chart plotter has stopped recording the Trip Hours as it only goes up to 99.59. It has been reading –.– since.<\/p>\n

Secondly also during my shift we have now less than 2400 nm to go. Steve said that if we keep this speed up we might be there in 14 days from now, which would be nice, but our chances are slim.<\/p>\n

Thirdly, we made (hopefully) our final turn for a couple of thousand miles. We are now on a bearing of 251 degrees straight to Fatu Hiva. It’s now a game of how close we can stay to the course and constantly trimming the sails to get the best out of the wind to keep our speed up.<\/p>\n

We caught 3 fish, a little Mahi Mahi, which we tried to use as live bait. It fought for it’s life and broke free of the hook after we dropped him back in to the water. 2 others also got away, one that just jumped off the hook and the other broke the hook, as it was very badly corroded.<\/p>\n

We have upgraded some of the lures with new hooks and setup a squiddy with multiple hooks. We’ll see how they get on tomorrow.<\/p>\n

In the afternoon a pod of Short Finned Pilot whales came to say hello and were with us for quite some time. Tried to get some photos, I haven’t had a chance to check them out yet, I think I got a few good ones. <\/p>\n

Right I’m done for the day. Nighty night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m going to cheat a little and start writing these before I go to bed, I know that there’s technically 4 more hours to go until the end of the day, but if anything amazing happens I will just do a extra one or bolt it on to the next days entry.<\/p>\n

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