We carried on making good progress throughout the day. The wind eased slightly but without the reefs we were still making good speed. Towards the end of the day the seas had eased off and it was a comfortable sail.
At 9pm the wind started getting up and there was a huge black cloud in front of us so I called Jonny to come and help me put a reef in. We got the first reef in but as the wind was still increasing we decided to put the second reef in as well. Suddenly the wind went for 15 – 20 knots behind us to 35 – 40 knots on the nose and torrential rain. We decide to drop the main as it was out on the preventor and was going to get damaged. For 2 hours we battled into 35 knot headwinds and big seas doing less than a knot at times – not a very pleasant experience!!
By midnight the wind and seas had eased but the wind was still on the nose so we carried on motoring towards Tonga.
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