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Misto - September 16-19, 2018: To Christmas Island



The Lombok to Christmas Island start was slightly delayed as we had to wait for our clearance papers, but eventually we all set sail for Christmas Island. The current was running fast, up to 6 knots, in the Lombok Channel and it made for very large, and sometimes churning, seas in the channel. Having started with all our white sails up we had to put 2 reefs in the main when we encountered the conditions in the channel, but eventually we made it out to calmer waters. The next 12 hours included some motoring, but then we had a day or so of beautiful sailing with big, gentle ocean swells. However on the evening of September 18 the wind started to pick up and the seas became increasingly lumpy and confused due to a weather system to our south. With winds up to 25 knots, a reef in the main, wind forward of the beam and up to 2 knots of favorable current we raced along at speeds consistently above 10 knots. It all made for a rather uncomfortable couple of nights.

But now the wind has dropped to a comfortable 18 or 19 knots and is more on the beam, so despite the seas that are still rather confused, we are slightly more comfortable. With the very fast passage we expect to reach Christmas Island around midnight on September 19.
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At 9/18/2018 5:31 AM (utc) our position was 10°14.13'S 107°07.97'E
Our course and speed are 264T at 9.7kts


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