Day 2 - Mangonui

And so the end of our second day out comes to an end. i have to confess already i feel like i'm done. i have satisfied my sailing urge and i could go home happy.

Tomorrow we are scheduled to restart at 1pm. winds are looking very light from a southerly/westerly direction.

Right now predict wind is telling us that our passage down to Stewart Island will take close on 8 days.

We had a good dinner at the Mangonui Yacht Club tonight with the rest of the fleet. So far in the fleet there has been one blown spiniker, a sheered off mast ring, 2 almost broken toes and some trouble with a mainsail. All in a nights work for this lot.

i am headed for an early night as we have a race briefing at 9am tomorrow morning. Good to hear that so many people are reading the blog, next week it might be a little less frequent as we will be out of cell range and will be posting via the satphone.

oh and i managed to catch a shower, its going to have to last me for the next week :)
Matthew

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