Day 227 Finally a SW wind

Our position @ 0945 is S28º55/E170º05. The wind is 10 to 15 knots from the south with a 4 to 6 foot wave.
In the morning we continued to crawl along until about noon when the wind finally began to shift to the southwest. We “shook out the reef and unfurled the jib” (deployed the entire sail and jib) to take advantage of the new wind position and finally began making progress southward at about 6 knots. We are still over 400 miles from Opua so it will be several days before we make landfall but the new speed and direction make us feel better about the situation and the smaller seas are more comfortable even though the boat is heeled over at a steep angle.