August 28, 2012
If all goes well, we’re off today about noon, bound for Suwarrow. We’ve been waiting for the perfect weather for the sail and gave up on that fantasy about a week ago. Now, we’re settling for good enough – at least we hope it’ll be good enough. We’ve hired a weather router to help us and he says go, so we will.
But first, we need to check out with the local police, do some last-minute grocery shopping and about a hundred last-minute boat chores.
Suwarrow wasn’t our first choice for a destination. We’d been planning to go to an island called Niue on the way to the island nation of Tonga but that’s a more southern route and the weather just doesn’t look good for that crossing. Suwarrow is a tiny atoll on the way to Samoa. It’s about a 5 or 6 day sail from here, then another 4 days or so to Samoa. From Samoa, we’ll head to Tonga. At least, that’s the plan for now – subject to change whichever way the wind blows.
We’ll try to send some text-only updates while underway. On behalf of you (’cause we know you would want to), we wish us smooth seas and fair winds. Thanks! -Rich
