Position: 20 degrees, 27 minutes south; 178 degrees, 21 minutes east

A very bumpy, or more like rock and roll, ride today. We’re just not catching a break this trip on the weather. After lightning, squalls and whathaveyou, now for today, tomorrow and most of Friday we have winds in the high 20’s/low 30’s and ocean swells up to 18 feet. Unfortunately for us, we have to run about parallel to both in order to get into Savusavu. It’s not much fun. We’re leaving open the option a this point to duck behind one of the islands that is about 80 miles away right now and just “hide” behind it until the wind and waves go away-which should be about Saturday. A tough call at this point. We’d like to get in and could possibly do it late Friday afternoon, but it’s a rough ride to to it done. We’ll see how tonight goes. The wave height is supposed to peak around midnight or so and then start to go down. Will be much nicer when the moon comes out as well, as pitch dark is not very friendly when there are waves all around and the wind is shrieking in the rigging.

That’s it for now-too rough to type 😉