N 30° 18.976
E 141° 36.278

Hachijoshima is an island about 180 NM south of Yokohama.

Although MaRe runs, with a small reef in the genoa with reef 2 in the main, still with STW peaks above 9 KN, ŵe will not make it until Yokohama before the wind turns on to our nose. So I decided to make a stop over at Hachijoshima to wait there for right weather window for the last 180 NM.

In the meantime we had breakfast. Shigeo feels a bit seasick and could only eat a slice of bread and one of his delicious, board made banana-oats cookies.

The wind increased after to peak TWS of 30 KN in gusts and we reefed the genoa to 2.5 bars. On top of waves MaRe accelerates sometimes to 11.5 KN. (She is not surfing down the slopes!)

I also changed the wind vane angle to 95 deg to ease the impact of waves.

I know hope the wind follows the forecast and goes down and more even, turns back to the forecasted TWD of about 75 deg in 12 h from now.

Patience is needed.

Now I’m the only one awake. Shigeo and Tobi have naps. Fortunately, there is some left from breakfast.