After a week of long daily distances in near perfect sailing conditions the crew of Musandam are now looking ahead to tomorrow and their proposed turn to the north required to navigate them through the Cook Straits early next week. Gusts and squalls of up to 30 knots are forecast ahead as they make their way towards the Tasman Sea. The wind is set to shift around noon on Saturday when they should be past Tasmania and around 700 miles south of Sydney, Australia.
Update from onboard today
“We are at 47d 42′ south and 141d 33′ E and the temperature in the cabin is 22.5 degrees. The temperature on deck is 17 degrees, and the overnight low was 10 degrees, how nice is that, how lucky are we. Lots of our thermal clothes have not had an outing, simply not needed. We know it can’t last forever, but a major memory of this trip will be just how good the weather has been for this leg underneath Australia I keep thinking that we shouldn’t keep going on about it as you’ll all be very bored of it by now, but it keeps dominating life onboard. The conversations we have and the life we lead are centered around the fact that conditions are fantastic, and we don’t have any water across the deck, not for 5 or so days now.