We woke up this morning to grey skies, rain and the wind picking up. We were going to head back to the marina tomorrow but decided we might as well head back today if the weather was rubbish and we would just be sat on the boat.
After the first rain shower the weather seemed to brighten up abit and we were having a nice motor sail under the genoa back down the Yasawas.
Around lunchtime we were hit by a huge squall – 50 knot winds on the nose and torrential rain. The 50 knot winds lasted for 10 mins before easing to around 40 knots!! Jonny was getting soaking trying to keep us on the correct course in the wind and I was down below keeping an eye on his course as we were heading through a narrow pass with reef either side. The rain came through in patches but the wind didn't and for the next 5 hours we had around 30 knots of wind on the nose as we tried to head to the marina before dark - our speed dropped down to less than 2 knots at times due to the wind strength and some huge waves.
We should have arrived at the marina about 2.30 and we eventually pulled in around 5pm. We were offered the fuel berth or the buoy in the middle so we chose the buoy in the middle as it required less effort!!
After a much needed shower to warm Jonny up I fed him some rice pudding as we had only been able to eat some crackers all day. We had a very early tea and settled down to watch dvds.
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