When we talked to Karen on Red Herring at 18:00 last night it was clear we should take more food to Niuatoputapu as the supply boat hadn’t been for 5 months.  The wife of the beach pub owner drove Mary around to lots of shops to collect bags of rice and flour and change US [...]

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Position:5.565,-80.454 at 07:00 local, 13:00 BST
24hr run: 94 miles GPS, 92 miles log. ETA Galapagos at 5 knots: 19:35 local 23rd May
Wind: South 8knots Sea: smooth with SW swell 1.5m
Skye:  70% cloud cover no thunder clouds
Light winds mostly just enough to sail hence below 100 mile 24 hour run.  Enough to try the Pink spinnaker [...]

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