Yup, in a couple hours we’ll slip our lines and be off on this year’s 1200 mile journey to Fiji.

We’re just waiting for customs and doing some final cooking so we don’t have to spend time in the galley for the first day or two out.

We woke from a rainy, windy night to beautiful blue sky. Now that the front has passed, we have south wind – supposedly 15 knots, but I think it might be a bit more blustery than that. Main thing though – from the south to push us north.

We’ll post a blog almost daily at around 2200 New Zealand time.

OK, going off the grid…three, two, one…