Position: 23 degrees, 40 minutes south; 158 degrees, 48 minutes west 67 nm day

Whew, thank goodness we got an easy day today. We’re both exhausted after last night’s events. This morning brought some unsettled looking weather (again), but it turned out pretty benign. All day, there has been little or no wind. We have been motoring since morning (it’s after dinner right now) and we expect we’ll continue to motor through tomorrow sometime, maybe even the next day. That’s probably getting pretty close to the extent of our fuel though, so we’re hoping the wind fills in for the final stretch. It should fill in from the south and then south east Thursday for a few days, so cross fingers.

This shows our planned route(s) versus actual. The "bottom" route was the original. The next higher was our modified for weather avoidance. The actual is shown by the triangle representing our boat and the dotted line behind it. Snarky weather and ENE wind are pushing us toward Tahiti instead of letting us go east to Tubuai...so we'll go where the wind lets us.

Oh, I don’t know if I mentioned we decided to just bypass Tubuai and go direct Tahiti at this point. We’re currently about 600 miles to go.

That and the beautiful almost full moon we see tonight for the first time in three or four days is about all the news for now.

P.S. Thanks to everyone for your comments. We enjoy ready them in the evenings. Some of you are either new or on new computers, so if you don’t see your comment, it’s because I have to “moderate” i.e. approve the post. I can’t do that until we get internet access in Tahiti and approve you. Once approved all your comments will go through with no further action required. Meanwhile we still are receiving them and enjoying them.