We awake to another rainy day with the wind still coming from the Southeast at 15 to 20 knots. Leaving the island now would mean another day of tacking back and forth without making much progress. The 60 mile trip to Suva could easily take over 20 hours with the wind coming from this direction. In fact, yesterday we only made 2½ knots of forward speed with all the tacking we did.
We called Moonraker to see if they have any weather forecast information and they tell us that the wind direction is supposed to change tomorrow afternoon and the velocity should diminish some so we decide to wait until then to leave for Suva.
In the harbor there is a 12 to 18 inch white-capped wind chop that is driven by the strong winds. It is not possible to even get in our normal swim as the current would quickly sweep any swimmer onto the sea wall 200 yards behind the boat. It would take some real luck to get out of the water before being bashed by the waves.
The same wind chop would make a dinghy ride to shore a very wet proposition so we spend our day on the boat watching three movies, reading, napping, eating and playing cards.
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