161nm to go.<\/p>\n

Literally within a minute or two after writing yesterday’s blog the winds picked up and stayed there. Not significantly but enough to start moving the boat between 5 & 6 knots. Suddenly we were looking at solid ETAs during the day of 5\/3 and building up a decent safety margin to arrive before dusk that day. My spirits were certainly sent soaring by this improvement after 3-4 days of sluggishness.<\/p>\n

With just 2 days left to go I performed an important pre arrival task which was to place beers in the fridge. We don’t drink alcohol during passage but we can certainly prepare for our first evening at anchor.<\/p>\n

More labouriously all three of us worked together to reverse our 300ft chain. Not sure if this is something I’ve ranted on about before but this was the chain we received in Grenada that turned out to have superficial galvanization and is currently quickly turning to rust. The company have promised to credit us but so far have lacked in any follow through. Reversing the chain will allow us to put the better end of the chain in the water for the next few months before we deep six it somewhere along the way to New Zealand.<\/p>\n

One chore that we can see ahead of us once we’ve anchored is barnacle removal. Where the paint has worn we can see the odd patch of barnacles \/ filter feeders that have grown during our passage no doubt receiving a constant stream of nutrients from the flow of water over our hulls. Hopefully there aren’t too many patches but where there are it’s going to be hard work.<\/p>\n

So, as I write this I can fairly confidently predict we’ll be arriving in Fatu Hiva tomorrow afternoon. We’ve covered 2,863nm through the water so far. The final few miles feels like nothing at all. We have one more night of watches before we can all get a solid nights rest. Soon we’ll be able to walk further than the length of the boat on ground that is not constantly moving. That will be novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

161nm to go.<\/p>\n

Literally within a minute or two after writing yesterday’s blog the winds picked up and stayed there. Not significantly but enough to start moving the boat between 5 & 6 knots. Suddenly we were looking at solid ETAs during the day of 5\/3 and building up a decent safety margin to arrive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-sea","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3312,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions\/3312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}