ORCV Melbourne to Vanuatu (M2V)

Get me to the bar in time.

The weather for the remainder of the 2010 M2V looks to be a truly sensational 10-15 knots from the Sou'east - just what you want, actually. Especially when you consider how far you have had to go to the Tradewinds and those balmy gentle seas that lured into this caper in the first place. It's brochure weather as Bill 'Captain Raw' Rawson used to tell us as he contemplated the next adventure.

However, this is no time to relax and enjoy cocktail hour aboard, because by Friday the wind is starting to drop, so it really is time to get out your biggest spinnaker and make hast for Vanuatu!!! So Kimbo, if you're reading this, get them cranked up and full of beans aboard Samskara, so you can get to your tropical paradise ASAP.

Definition time - and mercifully, we don't see too much of the top one!!!!!

Thursday's weather - Vila is on the main island of Efate, which is just above the 1014millibar/hectopascal pressure line.

Friday's weather - great if you're on a cruise liner, but not so healthy for yacht racing...

More soon...

Please remember, that if you want to find out where everyone is in the chase for the container of humanitarian aid that APC Logistics sent to Vanuatu for us, then please go HERE. Sked times are 4.30am and pm EST.

By John Curnow and Simon Dryden