Still here

TIME: 2021/06/14 02:34
LATITUDE: 20-33.79N
LONGITUDE: 158-37.58W
COURSE: 011T
WIND: NE 18
SPEED: 3.5
Distance to Oahu: 61NM

We are still out here. After a lovely 12 hour reprieve yesterday from the wind and waves, they started to return around dinner time last night and have only continued to build since then. We are motor sailing directly into the wind with both engines and averaging 3 to 3.5kn, not great, but at this stage we'll take what we can get. We are very, very tired of slamming into the seas and very, very ready to be sitting still at a dock. Arriving tomorrow is still not totally out of the question, but time will tell.

The only entertainment we have had are four birds sitting on the bow of Maple for hours!! Two of them insisted on sitting perched on the lifelines. I have no clue how they stayed balanced for so long on a tiny wire in bouncy seas with webbed feet. Now that we are back to upwards of 2m seas, they have disappeared. Clearly that is their limit for when they are better off flying.

I really hope that when I write next we are tied to a dock. If it is not obvious, we are done with this passage. You may recall a couple of weeks ago when D suggested we just plan to settle in Hawaii, that is sounding very good right now!!!