Yeah I haven’t been keeping this up to date sorry, but in the mad rush to clear out of the so called winterless North, and sail for Fiji things got a little hectic, I can confirm that the winterless north is a load of bullshit after arriving in Fiji. We set sail from Opua with 3 hours left on our 72 hour window from being COVID tested, labs don’t work on weekend if your paying them, seems to some up the state of the country at the moment. I wasn’t that keen to sail with the forecast we had but after hoop jumping through the CAT1 nanny state crap and looking at another $500 for COVID tests the Scotsman in me said let’s go. I got Bob McDavit to do some weather for us and we set sail, the first couple of days went well until we hit a front which knocked Bella down to her bunk and took out the auto pilot, three days later of 20-25 knot westerlies finished the job, Bob had promised us 15 knot SE from 28 south (oh to be a weather man or and economist) so we had a few hours of 15 knots b...