Position: 15 degrees, 10 minutes south; 149 degrees, 30 minutes west 108 nm day

Ann had the great idea for a nice dinner on the main cabin top. There’s a beautiful moon, the sky’s clear, we have about 12 knots wind and it’s at least 80 degrees F out. Great idea! So, I cooked one of our vacuum packed coconut green curry with rice. Service was through the mid-cabin porthole and we enjoyed a wonderful dinner by moonlight on the middle of the South Pacific Ocean. Such things memories are made of. How lucky we are!

The last 24 hours has been consistently warm, but the wind is up and down. Last night started overcast, then the clouds went away and we had a lovely moon. It set around 0330 and we had great stars the rest of the night. But the wind is sometimes barely 6 knots, then up to 15 then down to 6. I can’t complain too much given it’s not very strenuous sailing, but in that range the sails need to be re-trimmed often as they stretch a bit and the shape changes significantly. Most of the morning we just sat and barely moved.

But, we’re doing about 5.5 knots right now in about 12 or so knots and this may be the wind that settles in for us. The forecast did show light air for our first two days, so here’s crossing fingers that our real 10-15 has finally settled in.

We’re just passing west of the SW most of the Tuamotus. Mataiya is some twenty or so miles to our east. The next island we need to “watch out for” is Caroline Island in the Line Island group some 300 miles ahead.

OK, not much else to report. Today is “zombie day”, also known as “day two” of the passage. We’re not completely in a groove yet, so very sleepy/tired, which is why I’m ending this and going to bed!