Note: Emails have been a little irregular, and as I think we have mentioned that is not too surprising. Certain parts of the world require that you use the radio at certain times of the day. If that isn't possible (because Al helped out for three watches in a row and then slept, for instance) then sometimes things get delayed. Also, yours truly was out salmon fishing, which limited my access. Sorry. Here is Al's report--Kotuku is flying!
Interesting evening, the wind continued to build throughout the evening, Weller set a record 13.2 knots wing and wing before I pulled the plug first double reefing the main then finally dousing the jib at 0400 when I was becoming a sleep zombie. The pilot was having issues with our course or sail plan or waves and would loose course about every 45 minutes. Some of the crew were having difficulties in the dark figuring out how to recover before any minor disaster occurred because no one was then driving. I stayed up through Weller, then Odom, then myself, then the first part of Judy's watch before calling it quits. We saved Matt for daylight and he has been hand steering since 0600. Jib is back up wing and wing and we will carry on through the daylight hours as is with the hopes that things will ease. Seas are quite confused with a leftover NW swell and SE swell meeting and the the new SSW wind waves on top of that. Winds are not too bad with gust at 30 and regular 20-25 SSW but the boat is tossed about quite a bit for now.
1000 HST position 37 11N 151 09W, course 050 speed 8.5 DTF 1339 wind 22 SSW
Delayed due to propagation issues sorry Al
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