survived the storm!!

good morning and what a good one it is!! we survived yesterday - wind finally started to subside around 2:30pm and we are now away from the yucky storm. we had 45 knot winds and 5 meter seas and major down pours! do not want to repeat that ever!!! last night we had nice seas, motoring into light head winds and lightening storms all around way off in the distance. just to be safe Steve disconnected the ham radio antenna . and our main sail has a 6 ft rip near the top!! hoping we can fix it ourselves in Tubuai, otherwise its a sail maker in Papeete. Tillicum do you have a sewing machine that can sew sails on board? mine is to small for the main.

we have a few things to repair once we anchor . this has been a hell of a trip! we have 326 nm to go...... motor sailing 6.6 knots waiting for the wind to turn some more. Genoa out and staysail too. heaps of laundry to do and I live in the dream that I will find some one in Tubuai to do it really cheap!!!! send me lots of luck on that one please! otherwise, we all get to do it by hand! and all my cruiser pals out there now how much fun that is! I still have sore hands from wringing it all last time.

our position is 27* 46 S 153* 03 W

well time for a shower! and do some boat cleaning on the inside. the cockpit is slowly drying out after all the saltwater from yesterday. we took waves right up to the backstay on the port side about 8-10 times and then heaps and heaps of rain. the waves even bent and broke one of the welds in the canvas door port side. Steve has bent it back into place , but will need to fix where the weld broke. he has a plan! like always.

orca III standing by