Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Oh heavenly breeze, where art thou?

Current position is 25 37' 0S and 156 42' 6E

And this brings us to a massive total of having covered a whopping 50nm in the last 24 hours! Never, in all our years of cruising, have we come across more than a day of no wind and, now, this is our 6th day.

For a brief moment, we almost celebrated (silly us) when we got about 7 knots but that died and here we are, our white flappy things doing just that, flapping. Even the slight current isn't really in our favour as it's heading straight south and we want to go west south west.

Paul isolated the remainder of one diesel tank to ensure that we'll have enough to get into and through Morton Bay as we'd been motoring most of yesterday but, sadly, the others drained dry early this morning so we have no choice now and can only hope that the wind gods come back from holiday (or Fiji or wherever they might be at the moment).

However, still nice and warm - just be kinda nice if the odd whale or dolphin showed up to break the monotony but no such luck.

1 comment:

Bill and Gail said...

Here's wishing you a whitecap merry christmas. Love Australia. Bill & Gail