Thursday Racing South
Wind strong and building from NW, with the barometer dropping fast, and a giant cloud bank filling from the west. Must be a big trough coming in. We're trying to get south of North Cape, NZ within about 30 hours, to stay ahead of a squash zone that will produce 30 plus knots wind. Going pretty fast, almost 7 knots, but may not make it, so I got the storm jib out and put it in a handy place. Looks as if tonight will be very dark and wet, to go along with the cold. I can hardly believe the autopilot is managing to keep us roughly on course. It's working pretty hard, in big confused waves. The fun part is scarce this afternoon, but if we can keep her moving this way, we could be in late Saturday or early Sunday. We're ready. 31 deg 11 min S, 171 deg 01 min E Ted
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