Today is (hopefully) our last full day at sea. We should reach Hawaii and the Kaneohe Yacht Club tomorrow evening. Once again we had a lot of squalls during the previous night. We also lost all our instruments when Karine took over form me at midnight. The only working instruments were the compass and the wind indicator called windex, at the top of the mast). I initially decided to wait until morning to look at this problem but when the rest of the crew woke-me up at 1AM I decided to look a the situation. The problem is that you cannot see the windex from the steering wheel so Marc had to relay its position to Karine who was correcting the heading of the boat. After a few attempts the problem was found and fixed.
To enter Kaneohe Bay, we have 2 options: the Sampan channel, a shorter but very shallow route or the main channel. The main channel has plenty of depth for our boat but is an hour detour. The Sampan channel show depth between 7 and 8 feet and we need 7.5 feet… Whatever route we decide, an escort boat will take us to the dock at KYC.
The picture below was taken at the Richmond Yacht Club just before leaving for the start of the race in front of the St Francis Yacht Club.
Note: we may not post our arrival tomorrow as we will be busy with the approach.