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Timshel - Suwarrow to Niue Day 1 and 2



We all had a lovely time in Suwarrow, snorkelling in the lagoon (the many black tipped reef sharks seemed indifferent to swimmers), walking on the reef, just lazing on the beach, also a very sociable time with Sundowners on the beach, Pot-Luck lunch and Pizza. It is a beautiful place. Due to the bad weather forecast for Niue, many of us stayed an extra day, after all not much point battling your way to Niue to find the wind and swell is too bad to stop there. In fact leaving Suwarrow was not that easy due to anchor chains wrapped round coral heads, and involved a few cooperative efforts with a swimmer in the water to direct or a dinghy to pull out the anchor. Our chain had managed to drop into a small gap between 2 rocks, we are so grateful to Dan from Skyelark for all his help, without him we would not have been able to extricate ourselves. We motored gingerly out of the pass, then over the start line and to Turtle Island, then we were able to set the cruising chute and sail in the gentle breeze. Tulla Mhor, Sandvita and Aurora Polaris all passed us at this point, Tullah Mhor especially went charging ahead with her big pink Asymmetric. Unfortunately the wind died later in the afternoon and we had to resort to the engine again, but a highlight was a small pod of Killer whales coming really close to the boat - amazing. We continued to motor slowly through the night (Taistealai and Sumore passed). Finally we got a little wind at 4pm and managed to set sail, but it is still rather fickle and not strong enough to drive us through the swell, making for an uncomfortable motion. Boats ahead have wind - so where is ours?

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