Weather Helmed

We are off to Fiji.  It feels strange to say that when I have spent my whole life dreaming of being on this side of the world and vacationing in Fiji.  It has always sounded so exotic!  Now the cruising community we’re part of uses it in such casual conversation that it feels like we’re simply driving to another US state. Some friends are flying in to meet up with us and we’ll have SIX people on the boat.  I’m thrilled to have company but the “hostess” in me is thinking about the details of accommodating everyone in our *very* limited space.  I think it will be fun though and I’m eager to have other women onboard!  We should have a 4-6 day passage to Lautoka/Nadi on the far west side of Fiji, depending on our winds.  Keep your fingers crossed that our engine repairs hold up!!

Fun fact:  We have crossed the international date line already (we are now a full day ahead of the US) and will cross longitude line 180 right before we get into Fiji.  At that point we will have theoretically gone as far west as we can go, and we will change over to going east!  Meaning, our longitude will no longer be increasing to the west (i.e. 176 degrees west, 177 degrees west) but will start decreasing from the east (i.e. 176 degrees east, 175 degrees east) until we got to Greenwich – if we were going that far.