G'day all, Swan Song is tied up on the Aloha dock at the Hawaii Yacht Club.
We arrived yesterday at 1715 local time.
18 days 1 hr 15 min 5.46 nm/hr
2654 nm
1052 gals 2.52 nm/gal So we could have made it without the extra
fuel...however I'm very happy to arrive in Honolulu with ~700 gallons of
$2.25/gal Mexican diesel still in the tanks
No major issues and few minor ones. Crew is still speaking to each other ;-)
NO fish but lots of lures missing from the bag! @ gallons of ice cream
left!!
Head seas/winds for the first 4 days then mild for next ten and then the
wind/seas piped up for the final run into Hawaii. Last day was winds to 35
kts and seas to 25'. We hand steered the last 8 hours as the seas were
confused and very large steep faced. No place for an autopilot...even Swan
Song's ;-)
No waves over the stern so the boat was dry for the entire trip once the
head seas/waves left coming out of Cabo....25 kts on the nose plus 15' seas
at 3-4 sec period...ugly.
More details will follow after we get Swan Song from passage configuration
back to cruising configuration.
Dave & Bill
Swan Song
Roughwater 58
Liming in Honolulu