Monday 28 May 2012

Day 8 - Taking our time and watching the weather

It was a quiet night, despite dodging a container ship (that put out a great AIS signal) and a long liner fishing vessel (that apparently had his transponder turned off) and a couple of minor squalls. We've pulled in all of Carina's genoa and are running only stayail and triple reef so as to slow down to about 2 knots to wait on a stationary trough that's embedded in the SPCZ at about 08 S that's also spawning cyclonic lows. The trough emanates from a cyclonic gale between Nuie and the Southern Cooks that is VERY unusual for this time of year. If need be we'll heave-to or park. If that strategy doesn't work because of the SW setting current, we can retreat NE or even head for Tarawa until this thing clears out. We're not in a hurry.

At 5/27/2012 and 17:54 UTC (GMT) our position was: 01°33.38'S / 172°32.42'E.
We were traveling 135T degrees true at 2.5 knots.

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