Fail to prepare is prepare to fail!

As I don’t want to fail, I prepare.

Tonight, we will reach Vava’u. However, I don’t want to go inside the group of islands at night.

My target is to be at the outer WPT of the passage at 0700 tomorrow. From there I estimate back. I also entered an additional WPT NE of Vava’u and about 20 NM E of the original route.

From this WPT I have 3 possibilities:
1 Heave to and drift in about W direction
2 Sail only with the genoa in easterly winds towards W
3 Sail with the gennaker during very early morning hours towards W if the wind is not enough for the genoa.

We also tested how fast MaRe drifts in hove to and a small party of the genoa only. Unfortunately, just in the moment the wind dropped down to only 7 – 8 KN TWS. Still, I got an idea about the possible drift speed on 15 KN of wind.

By now we have a plan with 3 alternatives and we can be relaxed.