Our current position is: 12 01 450S and 129 21 650E crossing the Timor Sea to Indonesia and all's well on board.
We left Darwin with the rally at 11:00 this morning with virtually no wind and what little there was was right on the nose. Now, considering that for the past 100 days or more, the wind has been consistently from the southeast, why oh why, when we are heading northwest, does it suddenly decide that that is the direction is will come from? Beats me.
Within a few hours, it had died completely so we were forced to motor over glassy seas and this continued until about an hour ago (it's now 4 o'clock in the morning) when we were finally able to switch off and enjoy some peaceful sailing. It's actually quite pleasant out here at the moment. We won't be breaking on speed records but, at least, we're moving at about 4 to 5 knots in the right direction.
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