ORCV Melbourne to King Island

Morning.

How are you?

It's a wonderful day here with the sun coming up in a blaze of glory and a gentle 10 to 15 knots blowing from the East Nor'east.

The fleet got away at 0100hrs fine and well, with the ships coming out straight after them. Busy evening for movements with the Yankee Foxtrots, as well. What we can say is that after the 0600hrs sked, five hours following the gun, Gusto and Scarlet Runner were just 14nm down the 114nm track and had already used up half of the time to be on record pace. In other words, to get back on pace, they would have to have done 20knots average for the remaining five hours. Well and truly possible with those two vessels, but highly unlikely given that the AIS beacons on a couple of vessels were showing just a tenth of that speed. i.e. Two and a bit knots. Doh!

So then, the wallabies love us and the sunrise is wonderful. The steak last night was up to the usual impeccable standard and it is delightfully moderate, with only a jumper and beannie required. Ostensibly, the runners in tomorrow's annual, 20 mile race across King Island will be moving faster.

Golf Course glowing in the morning sun, above and below is the Western side of Grassy Harbour.

Hope the crews are well versed on entertaining themselves... If you're not sailing, you may want to see where the boats are during the race on the ORCV's Tracker, which is HERE.

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	Councillor Island on the left, as seen from the plane... Remember the currents!!!!