23rd July, Niue to Tonga

We went ashore in the morning to check out, pay for our mooring buoy and spend any remaining NZ$ in the supermarket. After lunch on the boat we headed off on the 250 mile trip to Tonga. As we were heading out of the bay a whale swam passed which was amazing. We were making good progress with just the main up and the dinghy was in the way of the spinnaker pole which we would have needed for the genoa and also the UV strip on the genoa had started to come unstitched so we decided to just sail with the main. It was a rocky and rolly evening with some good wind and we were making good progress despite having to put 2 reefs in the main.