We all had a wonderful night’s sleep here in Marsden Cove marina, it was as calm and quiet as anything.

Another easy night for us with the engines on, we have been so lucky not to be caught in any

The night shifts went well, no squalls on my shift, so very easy. The crew are all in good shape

Besides watching some big squalls go by it was a comfortable night’s sail. Roy was definitely feeling perkier from his

The wind died so we motored most of last night, keeping to our router’s advice to head south to avoid

I was on the early morning shift at daybreak and was amazed to see how bright the full moon was

We all seemed to have a good night’s sleep and the men were up and watching the rugby during breakfast.

We were back at the dock at 9am to clear out of immigration. Oleni was there to greet us as

We had to be at the dock in PolePole at 9am to meet Oleni, our very friendly Tongan helper, who

Rowan presented two suggestions in the morning, one was to have an overnight sail to Nukul’alofa, the capital of Tonga,