Everything is so hard to pronounce here. The winds were great all day, perfect sailing weather, averaging 13 knots wind speed and the seas were really flat.
When we turned up into the wind, we were able to get all three sails up for the first time on this voyage.
You can see the problem with having in-mast furling here. Yeah, it is extremely convenient and keeps your boom light, but without battens and an improper sail shape when you furl, the resulting sail shape/trim suffers.
After sailing all morning and afternoon, we realized we couldn't make the 100 mile journey all the way to Naqelelevu Lagoon with enough light to avoid the reefs and drop anchor. We decided to stop on the north end of Taveuni at Naselesele Point and drop anchor for the night.
We dropped anchor at around 5:00pm, made dinner, watched Game of Thrones, and then went to bed.
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