Crispin

Downwind whole way, occasionally deep reaching. Managed 525 miles in 3 days, 175 miles a day to arrive in daylight and anchor in a beautiful shallow spot with sharks

Wind on/off only up to f4. We followed a very strong current out of the Lombok passage that took us 75% of the way. unfortunately had to motor to keep up but much less than the rest of the fleet

a day motoring, a day sailing, a day motoring, the rest sailing fairly slow then a motor through atlas channel fortunately picked the tides accidentally perfectly and round to Medana Marina

12hr motor to start then easy boring downwind sailing, a 4hr stop at anchor to wait for tide then a nervous overnight motor through 99nm of tidal zones to anchor in the dark in Fannie Bay

15-25kn, 2 nights, following shipping lanes with occasional cut-throughs

Fast first day and next, tailed off to a day motoring then 2 days champagne sailing then 3 mental days of 3.5m swell and 20-35kn, then entering GBR, half a day of motoring into swell then the most beautiful afternoon of sailing and seeing whales

4.5hrs motoring, consistent 15-20kn first half, 8-10 second half, used mizbal a bit, lost patience and motored a bit. spinnaker halyard randomly snapped

Rough as balls for 2 days, had to slow up for Tonga Passage, most of us were sick

2 days normal, a day motoring then biiig seas and big winds, black skies, no sun or moon or stars, boat and kids coped amazingly. couldn't land at Niue, so more days at sea but they were a dream in comparison. Weather reports couldn't agree and had everyone puzzling whether to go so far north we would be above Samoa

Another couple of hours motoring to get wind then quite a good sail despite grumpy crew