Passage to New Caledonia - Day 6

Following a difficult night with a strange eddying current that caused the headsail to back, the boat to stop, go fastest in the gentler puffs of breeze and slowest in the gusts from 18-20kt. It was a relief when morning finally arrived. Oddly, every night on this trip, the minute the sun went down everything erupted.

Dawn

AIS Target reassured us that the AIS was functioning despite worries that it was not.

View through a porthole - just wind and water.

Feeling relaxed for a moment

 

The Bloke in one of the Lazerettes while the contents had to be placed elsewhere

Just when we were thinking of relaxing the Bloke convinced himself that he could hear 'a noise' emanating from somewhere that equated to the steering. A lazerette needed to be emptied to even 'look' at the steering apparatus. Oh happy day. We'd spent the day on a strenuous heal and now this. It proved to be nothing but a thorough burst of Innox spray was delivered as a precaution.

Zapping along

 

A spangled sunset left us transfixed

Beautiful spangled sunset with the promise of landfall by morning.