Yesterday I thought we were going to have good winds and then it dropped back down entirely, so I ran the engine for a few hours. After the variable weather, I finally got some better southeast winds coming this morning. Tranquility is pretty close to us now, since they’ve been running the engine the whole time. So they’ve caught up again, although we haven’t seen them yet. Earlier I heard Tomboy on the SSB radio net and tried to make contact with them. They’re friends I met last year in Bora Bora who are in New Zealand now. I didn’t have any luck, so will try again tomorrow. We’re now about 200 nm from Tonga and headed straight to Whangarei, so about 1070 miles to go. New Zealand, here we come! Guppy is doing a nice 6 knots again and life is still comfortable.

Laura