POSITION REPORT

YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2011/05/23 00:00 LATITUDE: 19-29.99S LONGITUDE: 177-36.52E COURSE: 332T SPEED: 6.0 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 25 WIND_DIR: 101T WAVE_HT: 1.0M WAVE_PER: 8 SWELL_DIR: ESE SWELL_HT: 3.0M SWELL_PER: 8 CLOUDS: 70% VISIBILITY: 18 BARO: 1014.5 TREND: -1 AIR_TEMP: 27.8C SEA_TEMP: 27.8C COMMENT: Beach House – ENROUTE – Lautoka, Fiji. 194 nm day 07 run. 15 miles to abeam Kandavu Island landfall. 95 miles to Navalu Pass entry, 114 miles to Lautoka. We are under 3 reefs, no head sail to slow for the next 20 hours. We will enter Navalu Pass at first light tomorrow, check in Lautoka by afternoon. Kate still cooking and finishing Skippers course. It\’s now tropical warm at 81 deg F, water 80 deg F. Almost there. Still very windy, big swell. We should have protection from the swell once by Kandavu Island in about 3-4 hours. USE Sailmail address to respond.

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