January 18, 2019
We’re continuing our trip south today with a jump from Tauranga to Gisborne. It looks like that’s about as far as the weather will let us go. Here’s what our weather routing looks like on PredictWind…
The wind is already stronger than forecast at 22 knots, but it’s behind us, so it’s not bad. The almost 200 nautical mile trip should take us about 36 hours. These “short-long” trips are hard for us. There long enough to require keeping watches but too short to get into the watch-keeping flow.
Update: 5:47 AM.
The channel into Tauranga is always busy. It looked like we’d escape a close encounter of the huge ship kind, but no. The cruise ship below shared the channel with us (well, he took the channel and we ducked out around the edge).
After we squeeked by the floating apartment building, two freighters waited to have their way with us as seen above.
It’s 6:30 AM now. Cyndi’s on watch. Good night. -Rich
Update 1:53 PM:
Hello White Island. We see your volcano spewing smoke and steam. Please don’t corrode our stainless!
Update 6:05 AM (the next day):
Beautiful sunrise today. One of the few benefits of lack-of-sleep.
We’re making good progress. We should be in Gisborne around 5 in the evening. Fingers crossed!
