Trough!

About 0415 local time (GMT +10) a trough blazed through. Leading up to it, a vicious-looking squall line with periodic lightning formed to our west. Our northerly winds suddenly ceased and we were thrown into a sea of bouncing standing waves from all directions. Not knowing what was going to happen, we pulled in the genoa and hove to. A puff or two of SW winds was all the warning we got before being blasted by blinding rain and gusting contrary winds. With the passing, we put out a piece of genoa, wore ship and took off sailing on a new point of sail through the waves of warm driving rain. Dozens of shearwaters circled about Carina, enjoying the soaking, while a solitary boobie perched on a small piece of wood watched us impassively as we surfed by.

An hour or so later, we came out of the clouds and rain into a clear sky. Tonight winds are light ENE but Carina is gliding along in the direction we want to go and the stars are out above forming ground fog.

Sedate and calming quiet has engulfed us.

At 7/31/2016 and 13:13 UTC (GMT) our position was: 03°36.23'N / 138°55.10'E.
We were traveling 153T degrees true at 3.0 knots.



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