Annoying Easterly’s // Day 11
Late update today as I am down at Mt Maunganui competing at the Northern Regional Surf Lifesaving Championships and the interest shown by the clubbies on the beach has been huge. Everywhere I went on the beach people were asking after Shaun and wanting to know how he was doing!
Yesterday Shaun “hammered it”, striking off many nautical miles and was feeling extremely positive. Although today his progress was brought to an abrupt halt due to the easterly winds. Shaun’s outlook however was “guess you’ve gotta take the good with the bad” which shows that he is still mentally sound.
One highlight yesterday was the bird who hung out on Shaun’s solar panel for about 2 hours hitching a ride east!
Also, today he threw over a fishing line but unfortunately got no bites, even from his four fish friends under the boat. Probably a good thing since later in the trip he will no doubt be appreciating the company!
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Hi Shaun, Here in New Plymouth watching your progress. Keep giving it heaps and look forward to see you row into Ngamoutu beach. Just one request…hope you make it before Easter as we are heading the other way over the ditch for a holiday. Keep up the awesome work. Shaz.
Hope your holding up all right out there. It great watching your boat travel across the map. Keep it up.
Hi Shaun, this is your Mairangi Bay / Takapuna Grammar / old salt yachtie supporter living in Adelaide. If the BOM site wind forecasts are correct, you will need to gird your loins for this next week, old chum. Easterlies all week to 25 kts with seas to match; yachties weather site ‘passageweather.com’ concurs and also predicts easterly windwaves to 5m. Such bad luck and I feel for you but when the going gets tough, the tough get going – having been through the Taka Grammar ‘meat grinder’ you must have it in you! Bet you wish you had hopped onto that gyre off Coffs on day 2. My advice is go east like hell today, tonight and early tomorrow until the easterlies defeat you, then ship oars, deploy para anchor, put your feet up, and bide your time until Saturday when conditions are predicted to abate.
“Bloody Can do it mate”