Good progress
Progress continues to be good, even with 1.5kts of current against us as we approached New Caledonia yesterday. Penny spotted another yacht on the horizon and we chatted to a Canadian family on their way from NZ to New Caledonia. We are now past New Caledonia and on the home stretch with a couple of hundred miles to go. Just had a big fish on the lure but "it got away" which is rare once we have a strike. Perhaps better luck later today as lat night we had Naan Bread and frankfurts! The Naan bread was better fish food than for humans. Still, it's worth discovering these things.... Everyone continues to be well. We each do a 3hr watch with the first watch person also doing a second one the following morning. We have set our watches a couple of hours later as we were getting sick of the sun setting at 16:15. This morning, William cleaned all the flying fish off the deck. Nothing else to report, except that Paul spotted the Isle of Pines at first light this morning. Our fist land spotted in over a week. The batteries have been very low with cloud cover every day (little solar) and the wind turbine barely spinning. We have had to resort to running the engine for an hour yesterday and today just to keep the charge up a bit. So sorry, we've been rather uncommunicative to relatives and friends (other than through this blog). The Crew
