To all those who might be wondering about the fate of your seagoing friends:
As you know, we departed Napier with a strong northerly, which soon shifted south, then back to the north the following day, and became somewhat of a small gale. We ran with it for several hours before it eased off and we were able to put the boat back on track. We were on track for about 12 hours before a southerly gale found us. The weather hasn't been terrible, but it leaves us with only two choices:
1. run with it, or 2. stop all together. With the crazy weather at these latitudes, we have decided to run north with this system to try and find more westerly winds.
We are hoping that we run out of the gale activity in the near future as it is getting pretty old! We have both fallen victims to “rack back” and are getting bored of reading and watching movies and occasionally risking a soaking to peek out of the hatch for a look around. Our diet in these conditions is also less than exciting. Mostly made up of bread rolls, fresh fruit, and some pepparoni sticks. Actually cooking something does not sound appealing at the moment! But, with all of that going on-all is well on board; we are healthy and happy for the most part (slight seasickness aside!).
It's a good thing you got all the movies from the Baldwin collection :) Miss ya, Dallas
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