Ship's Log: A Quick Update

Passage sunset- High pressure approaching after 8 hours of frontal weather
associated with a low.

Amigos,

I haven't had the time to write a proper post, but thought I'd provide an update. We had a fine, quick five day sail over 580 miles from Rarotonga to Niue- "the rock"- with a great breeze and a pretty decent seastate across a portion of the Pacific sometimes known as The Dangerous Middle. I found it quite nice in spite of the moniker, though we weren't able to land any of the several fish strikes we had, to our great disappointment and to the loss of several more lures. Only had to run the Perkins for an hour or two coming out of and then into harbor, but it worked just fine.

Niue has been a wonderful if whirlwind experience. I will take the time to write more about it en route to Tonga. We've only been here two and a half days but must carry on as time in the tropics is running out. Only 250 miles to Vava'u Group in northern Tonga where I'll drop the Euros off and rush to catch up with my buddies.

More soon.

Cheers,

Connor

Ardea moored in the lee of The Rock.