and the wind keeps blowing.
during the whole of yesterday and the night the wind kept pushing us with around 30kn plus.
some of the waves rolling through are massive - hence our new speed record of 17,7kn!
we took in the boom as we felt we might start dipping it into the water again and are currently going under poled out headsail with a little reef alone.
life on board slowly turns to normal - finally mark and i can catch some sleep and get into our rhythms.
looks like the weather will hold for us to go all the way to tonga so in the morning we decided to turn down ssw and go for it.
we might have to motor the last 24h as conditions are predicted ease off - hard to imagine at the moment...or maybe we will already be there with the lightning speed we are doing before this happens;)
...or maybe be will stop in niue for a little break till the wind returns
no rain during the night but every now and then we have a wave slapping into the cockpit to make sure we stay awake!
rain came now before lunch...:(
just wondering how the humpback whales come up to breath in seas like that...as we get closer to their birthing grounds in tonga i keep looking out for them.
saw a weird white big fish swimming with us that morning - it did not want to show itself properly though. definitely not a dolphin and a bit too small for a whale, but maybe the biggest tuna ever seen!?
i keep on looking.
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