It was a pretty rough night. The winds turned around to west south west, blowing at about 25 knots. We are beating against waves and wind so our speed dropped a little :(. We’re now doing 5 knots with a reefed main and jib. So, yeah, Guppy is going through some messy seas right now but there are no more rocks at least, so that’s good. It doesn’t look like the rocks scratched Guppy too badly from what I can see now. I noticed on the weather chart a new front developing north of New Zealand. It won’t be possible to totally outrun it but, ah well, I guess we will see. So everything is normal again. I got some cold massive waves over me while reefing down and getting the boom off the genoa :-P. And Guppy crossed the International Date Line again, her second time passing 24 hours into the future in one moment ;). Only three more days to Whangarei. Yay, exciting!

Laura