Wednesday 28 August 2013

Day 5 (Auguste 28th) - out on the ocean!

A beautiful morning welcomes us! The see - majestical and unusual flat (of course - there's no wind!), is glistening in the rising sun. Still running the engine - but disregarding the noise (we almost got used to it already) - we enjoyed an extraordinary breakfast with pamplemose, ham and eggs for the guys and sautéed veggies for Barbara. Then Peter refills the fuel tanks with a 100 liter more - this should bring us to Coffs. Later in the Day we even get some breeze - barely 10kn from the north-west - but whatever! - we take everything! Furling out the jib - we notice a default..something is wrong at the top of the mast. Instead of the jib we use the mainsail - which is anyway the better choice for our high course (according to the experience of recent cruisers there is a current going down south along the Australian cost - so we reset our direction, pointing now 40nm north of Coffs Harbour and hoping then to join the current and sail right into the Bay)
With the upcoming breeze and the speed we kept maintaining - it looks like we could make it by Friday noon!
fingers crossed!
5:29 and only 239nm to Coffs Harbour!

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