Albert our Ambryn wood carving seemed to be smiling last night and the weather forecast agrees with him – two days of good winds to get us to Noumea, New Caledonia. It's going to be a close haul but doable.
We were waiting on the door step of Immigration at 7.30am this morning for departure stamps in our passports. As a quaint tradition, government offices close on Wednesday afternoons for 'sports' so while we could get our customs clearance we had to wait for immigration. From Immigration it was to the fuel dock clutching our precious duty free document to get 300L. If we have enough fuel to motor the entire way you can guarantee we'll be able sail all of it. Its how it is.
We sailed all day and through the night close hauled into 18 to 20 knots with seas coming from ahead of the beam. Although the seas were under 1m in height a short interval and occasionally we slammed off a crest into the following trough. Bang. Jackster is a strong boat and this is nothing to her. To me it was a little uncomfortable.
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