Position: 16 degrees 27 minutes south; 177 degrees, 46 minutes east

It’s coming on 1900 on our second night out from Nagelelevu. We’re about 16 miles from the north end of the northern most Yasawa island and are headed for Yasawa-I-Rara. It’s a bay just down from the top of the island. Orcinius got there this afternoon, so we have a bit of a description of the anchorage as well as some waypoints for coming in. It’s a bright moon, so with the waypoints and our radar we’re going to go in. We expect to get there sometime around 2200 or so. If it doesn’t look good we’ll stand off for the night and go in during daylight. We’ll see.

Last night was one of those nights that keep you coming back for more. We sailed all night in the brilliant moonlight. No clouds, stars, moon, calm one meter swell and nice warm breeze that kicked us along between 4 and 6 knots. It doesn’t get much better for a passage. Then today around noon the wind died way down and we reluctantly turned on the engine and have been motor-sailing ever since in an effort to get to the anchorage at a reasonable hour (if you consider 2200 as reasonable. Well it’s better than, say, 0300)

So stay turned tomorrow and we’ll tell you how it went and maybe describe a little of our first impression of the Yasawa chain of islands. It’s in the northwest part of the Fiji archipelago. We didn’t go here last year, so it will be all new.