Waiting for the blast.

Position 0645 20th 4824 06742 trip 111, DMGDistance Made Good; More here 116 so some current, perhaps. We are 43 miles from BlighWilliam Bligh – Sailed with Cook and later given command of HMS Bounty. Most famous for his 1200 mile open boat voyage after his crew mutinied.'s Cap, bare poledExplanation here, basically parked at 2.5 kts waiting for the front to go through. We are actually going too fast, but there's not much we can do about that.

If the gribWeather files. Graphics in Binary file: GRIB files associate a specific weather datum (eg wind velocity or atmospheric pressure) with a geographic position. Because the resulting file is a collection of these points they are extremely small and so ideal over slow links such as sailmail. is accurate and we get lucky, it will be mostly through by midnight UTC tonight – 17 hours time – which is also first light here so if we can manage to miss the rocky bits we should be close enough to see where we are going and we can decide what to do. I've just finished a repack of the forepeak to give us access to anchors, fenders, inflatable etc. Now we just wait.

I'll keep you posted as often as possible – lots will depend on how busy we are and also Iridium access if we get close in and perhaps out of the satellite's footprint.