We left Noumea Saturday morning, early enough to try to enjoy a windless morning and hoping we could reach Ile des Pins (“only” 60nm away). However, the weather decided for us and after 6 miles we pulled away in a sheltered little bay.
The wind picked up quickly and we were doing only 6 knt against it, bouncing up and down. The kids took Miaou for a sail and were happy to go pretty fast.
On Sunday, we tried again. We motored for 3 hours before putting the sails up. Greg had lots of fun tacking endlessly in the Woodin Channel as, off course, we had the wind on our nose again. We had up to 30knt of wind and we were the only sailing boat with some sails up! It took us 5 hours to do 20nm. Heavy rain and thunderstorm were also with us making this trip a little more “exciting” comparing to our last down wind sailing in sunny weather.
We are now tacked in a pretty tiny bay in Bay of Prony (there is just enough room to swing around). To warm up the atmosphere on board, as it is still raining, the oven is on and a cake is baking