Dignity is finally on her way to Australia. Peter and Sam, checked out of Fiji Monday morning as a fine weather window opened up for them.\n<\/p>\n

We are getting daily updates from Christina, Peter’s wife, who is in regular contact with them over the SSB radio. She is checking their position and condition and passing on essential weather information.\n<\/p>\n

They had a pleasant first day sail, with 15 knots of wind, making good progress doing 6.5 kts with a swell out of the SW of 1.2m.\n<\/p>\n

Yesterday their second day was a little tougher. They went through a little trough which was expected, but the wind turned out to be stronger than anticipated. Peter didn’t contact Christina at the scheduled evening time, due to the fact that they were dealing with 34kts of wind at the time.\u00a0The wind continued between 24-30kts for 4 hrs afterwards. They reefed down the sails and coped well with the strong winds.\n<\/p>\n

Today the winds have died down and so Peter plans to motor sail until the winds picks up again which is forecasted to soon.\n<\/p>\n

If the weather continues to look good and stay as predicted, Dignity will probably sail direct to Australia without stopping off at New Caledonia. A direct sail will give them an ETA of 23rd\/24th of August to Brisbane.\n<\/p>\n

Steve has just finished his third round of chemo. It is beginning to takes its toll on him physically and mentally. We take each day as it comes. We take short walks to exercise Steve, read, watch movies and TV (recently enjoying the Olympics) and plan our future for possible outcomes and getting a few things sorted or going. In the evenings we enjoy dinner and time with the family, just chatting about the day and things in generally. Steve and I use to do this with our children so it’s lovely to enjoy family dinner time again.\n<\/p>\n

Last weekend before Steve’s chemo, we took a trip to the bay with Sarah, Russ and Jack (who acted as our chauffer to earn hours for his driving permit). This was the first time we’ve been by the sea since leaving Fiji. It was a lovely day.\n<\/p>\n

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