It's been a long day today and we've been averaging around 5 knots with 2 meter seas and roughly 15-20 knots of wind out of the South East. We're rolling around like crazy due to strange confused seas coming from two slightly different directions out of the East. Things have been flying around all over the place and we're having to wedge ourselves in just to get some sleep and trying to cook food has been very interesting. Last night was pretty eventful with a few wind changes meaning that we had to change our sail configuration each time in the pitch black which means as usual not a lot of sleep was had by either of us. We're now sailing with our head sail poled out on the port side and the main double reefed on the other but as the sun is setting it looks like we'll have to change them again to stay on course.....they joy of cruising!!
Our friends on 'Silene' are 10 miles ahead of us so we still have good radio contact although they're sailing much faster than us and will probably be well out of range in the morning. We're both pretty exhausted as it's been a while since we've done any night passages and we're completely out of practice! I think it's the first time Jimmy hasn't even been tempted to put a fishing line over the side since we've been in Australia so that's saying something!!
We still have 111 nautical miles to go but with any luck we hope to arrive in Elizabeth Bay on the Wessel islands before sunset tomorrow night. C.xx
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