Course:285*T with 450 nautical miles to go.
Today is the big day and we are finally underway to the city of Kupang, Western Timor in Indonesia. The last three weeks have been crammed with provisioning and fixing the boat so it feels great to get back to sea where hopefully we can relax a little! The rally began at 11am giving us just enough time to run ashore for our last hot shower & to top up our water cans then get back to Bluemoon to hoist the dinghy on deck and pull the anchor. With over 100 other boats the start line just outside Fannie Bay anchorage was packed full with everyone trying to put up spinnakers and avoid running into each other! It was a beautiful sight & luckily all went smoothly even though we are now one of the last yachts in the group, with so many Catamaran's it's impossible to keep up especially as we haven't scrubbed our bottom for a while (due to the local crocodile inhabitants) so we're probably dragging a carpet underneath us!!
We had a great sail earlier with 15 knots of wind, flying the spinnaker at 5 knots but now that the sun has set the wind has died and we're motoring against the current at 2 knots. Jimmy is getting frustrated but it might not be a bad thing as it looks like a city ahead of us with all the mast lights so at least we'll avoid any close encounters being so far behind!
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