Hove To

A dry soft NE wind blows across the water, bright from the three quarter moon as we sit, parked, about 13 nm from the pass at Woleai. It is 4 am and we've been hove to since about 11 pm after reaching a point north and east of our line of travel beyond which we dare not go in the dark. Carina bobs in the swell and to her stern is the moon; her port side to Ursa Major and Polaris and her starboard to a magnificent South Cross sitting upright. The GPS reads zero for speed over ground but our track over the last three hours shows a perceptible drift. All is well as I sip tea and try to wake up for my watch.

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At 2/12/2014 and 18:09 UTC (GMT) our position was: 07°17.33'N / 144°07.81'E.



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