Trade Winds (trade you for some wind!)
Position as of 10:00 UTC 04°47'S, 131°33'W
We have been sailing slowly southwest in light variable "trade winds" since we crossed the equator. Tonight has been the first night in awhile hat we haven't been harassed by squalls so perhaps we are finally out that zone. The winds have been strange with shifts of 10-20 degrees. We spent all day yesterday beating into a southerly wind in order to keep to our course and not get too far west. I thought we weren't supposed to go to weather any more. Once again, it just proves that I am just ain't no gentleman. The winds have finally clocked around to the east and if the weather charts are half way accurate, we should keep this wind for the next few days. We have had a good day and night (so far) sailing and should put some decent miles behind us today. We have been averaging only about 100 miles a day but that's not too bad considering we have had 10 knots o wind during the day ad less at night. We are currently about 550 miles from Fatu Hiva where we will sneak in for a few days before "officially" arriving in the Marquesas in Hiva Oa. The radio continues to plague and sometimes I get it to work for a few hours before it all packs in again. I got it working today by thumping the tuner rather hard. The engineers last resort! It worked, a least long enough to get email. Will try and get it working again tomorrow as we could not check into Pacific Seafarers and for some reason Toketie didn't check in tonight either. The VHF decided to act up the other day as well. I spent a wonderful morning tearing that apart to find a broken wire from the microphone to the radio. Of course is did not break in the easy to repair places so we now have this Frankenstein configuration for the microphone. Ugly but it works.
We have been sailing slowly southwest in light variable "trade winds" since we crossed the equator. Tonight has been the first night in awhile hat we haven't been harassed by squalls so perhaps we are finally out that zone. The winds have been strange with shifts of 10-20 degrees. We spent all day yesterday beating into a southerly wind in order to keep to our course and not get too far west. I thought we weren't supposed to go to weather any more. Once again, it just proves that I am just ain't no gentleman. The winds have finally clocked around to the east and if the weather charts are half way accurate, we should keep this wind for the next few days. We have had a good day and night (so far) sailing and should put some decent miles behind us today. We have been averaging only about 100 miles a day but that's not too bad considering we have had 10 knots o wind during the day ad less at night. We are currently about 550 miles from Fatu Hiva where we will sneak in for a few days before "officially" arriving in the Marquesas in Hiva Oa. The radio continues to plague and sometimes I get it to work for a few hours before it all packs in again. I got it working today by thumping the tuner rather hard. The engineers last resort! It worked, a least long enough to get email. Will try and get it working again tomorrow as we could not check into Pacific Seafarers and for some reason Toketie didn't check in tonight either. The VHF decided to act up the other day as well. I spent a wonderful morning tearing that apart to find a broken wire from the microphone to the radio. Of course is did not break in the easy to repair places so we now have this Frankenstein configuration for the microphone. Ugly but it works.
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