Sailing Marshalls to Solomons Part II

Some more of our coordinates for boats intending to do the trip….

Time – 0700 15^th July, Lat – 00 deg 30’S, Long 171 deg 38’E, Distance to go – 765nm, Wind SE(5knots), Sea 0.5m, Sailing at 4.6 knots.

Time – 0000 16^th July, Lat – 01 deg 47’S, Long 171 deg 18’E, Distance to go – 686nm, Wind SE(15knots), Sea 1.0m, Sailing 5 knots.

Time – 1830 17^th July, Lat – 03 deg 08’S, Long 170 deg 45’E, Distance to go – 599nm, Wind SSE(20knots), Sea 2.0m, Sailing 4.8 knots.

Time – 1430 18^th July, Lat – 04 deg 29’S , Long 170 deg 30’E, Distance to go – 519nm, Wind SE(25knots), Sea 3.0m, Sailing 4.6 knots.

Time – 1530 19^th July, Lat – 06 deg 07’S, Long 169 deg 51’E, Distance to go – 413nm, Wind SE(15knots), Sea 2.5m, Sailing 5 knots.

Time – 1830 20^th July, Lat – 07 deg 53’S, Long 169 deg 04’E, Distance to go – 260nm, Wind SE(10knots), Sea 1.0m, Sailing 5.5 knots

Time – 1805 21^st July, Lat – 09 deg 07’S, Long 167 deg 39’E, Distance to go – 148nm, Wind SE(10knots), Sea 0.5m, Sailing 5.0 knots.

A note on our course…

We stayed east for as long as possible but then we came changed course to the west once the trades picked up. This made for a more relaxed end to the trip. We set our course for about 8 nm to the west of the most northern of the Duff islands, then sailed east of the Reef islands and into Graciosa Bay on the morning of the 22^nd of July. We anchored at Shaw Point opposite Lata in about 30m, good holding. We saw one other boat the whole trip near Kiribati, but a few others popped up on the AIS.