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Celebrate - Approaching the Indonesian Coast



The light winds we suffered early on on this trip are now over and are now enjoying 20 knots of trade wind sailing taking us towards Benoa Harbor on Bali. Ironically we now have to put the breaks on by reducing sail otherwise we will reach our destination over night, this is not an ideal situation and on this occasion the harbor is closed so we must wait till morning and slack water.



Our route from Darwin has taken us through different seas on the edge of the Indian Ocean starting with the Timor Sea, the Savu Sea and now the Flores Sea. We are now within 15 miles of Lombok as we approach the Indonesian Coast. The air temperature has gradually increased and flying fish are flying again. No fishing yet but some pink lures and line are on the shopping list for Bali.



Now the wind is up we have been experimenting with different down wind sail plans, the gennaker has been given a day off today and we tried the genoa goosewinged it all worked well until we realized we were going too fast!



I am gradually getting to grips with all the electronics on board, with the index finger getting lots of exercise. Although there have been moments when the alarms go off and two attempts by the boat to turn around have been narrowly averted.



Peter on Celebrate


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