I love night sailing when the moon and stars are out. Today only the lying sickle of the waxing moon is to be seen. It creates still a nice moon river, flowing to MaRe from about 45 – 50 deg PRT.<\/p>\n
In directions away from the moon, plenty of stars are to be seen; towards the moon, the moon creates too much light pollution. Therefore only few very bright stars are to be seen.<\/p>\n
Just above me, I recognized right now the typical constellation of the belt of Orion.<\/p>\n
The (southern) Crux is not be seen. We are too close to the equator. It is just behind the southern horizon.<\/p>\n
The moon river makes wind and swell waves very well to be seen. The wind waves are low, less than 50 cm. However, we have a clearly to be seen main swell of about 1 1\/2 m from ESE and weaker one from south.<\/p>\n
MaRe doesn’t wear her normal pajamas but only top part, the genoa. I was thinking about setting the main sail,
\nHowever, MaRe would be too fast, in her full pajama, thus we would arrive before 0500 and that’s what we don’t want. So I kept her with only the genoa. At an AWA of 100 deg STB and an AWS of 17KN, she still ploughs with around 7 KN through the nightly sea.<\/p>\n
Inge, who is off watch takes her “power nap” in the cockpit . When my watch ends at 2200, I expect to fall asleep before my head will reach the cushion.<\/p>\n
ETA at Taiohae Bay will be currently 07:43. Let’s see what will happen through the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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