Position: 27 degrees, 05 minutes south; 160 degrees, 17 minutes west 112 nm today

The east wind has set in and has brought a front with it. Since breakfast, we’ve had a double reefed main and stays’l in 25 knots wind at about 55 degrees to the wind in 3-4 foot waves. Now it’s raining too and the wind has come up to the point I’m considering a third reef before I go off watch (we just finished dinner). These conditions look to be with us for the next two days, then I’m not sure. We’re near a fairly complex system that is throwing off all kinds of weather and it’s not really clear what we’ll get on Monday. The gribs are showing light and variable before a south wind seems to fill in. I’ll be another day or two before I get a good read on what we’ll get. For now, we’re just heading on. All day we’ve been pretty much glued to 058 True. That’s almost direct to Tubuai, although it won’t last. Somewhere in here we’re going to get some northerlies too.

Anyway, that’s our update for today. It’s too bumpy to type and hang on. 😉