Sunday, May 20 — Noon (Fiji time)
Greetings from Intention, bound for Vanuatu. Our Noon position is lat 18deg 25min South, lon 171deg 46min East. Our 24-hour run since Noon yesterday is 162 nm. Conditions have been good: wind from the east or southeast at 15 to 20 kts, seas 3 to 6 feet. We sailed through a few mild squalls last night, which brought some much-appreciated rain to wash down the deck.
Our current course is 247 deg true, at a speed of 6.5 kts. We are sailing a bit south of our destination in order to keep the wind at a favorable angle — we will probably jibe when we get closer to Vanuatu.
Meals, as always, have been tasty — chicken burritos for dinner, scrambled eggs for breakfast. So much for the “high-seas weight-loss plan”!
At six PM last night we started standing watch. The watch order was John, Daniel, Jim, then Paul. We have seen no vessels since leaving Fiji — there just isn’t much traffic out here.
Until next report,
Regards,
S/V Intention