Long day, mostly motoring, but we covered a lot of ground. We managed to motorsail some of it, but mostly it was just to-weather motoring to cut down the distance to Fulaga.

We were pretty lucky with the weather, 2 squalls (one of which barely got the boat damp, the other had more rain but finished in a minute), and the wind eased as we turned south east down the coast. We managed to fill the water tanks, do some laundry and prepare some food for the trip - so it was reasonably productive despite weaving in and around the reefs in the narrow channels that are shown on the charts.

We’re now at Naigani Island, anchored for the night. Its an early start tomorrow to Fulaga, and the land of no-data. So it’ll be emailed blogs and very few photos until we get back into civilisation…

Here is tonight’s anchorage…

If the wind is kind, we may make it to Fulaga by Friday afternoon. If not, it may be 2 nights at sea, and arriving on Saturday before the wind returns to its East/South-East norm. Once in Fulaga, its mostly downwind from there, though Ogea is upwind and I do want to go there too. At least its only a short hop.