Maui

By 0730 this morning both of our neighbors had departed, so we figured they knew something we didn't about the passage and we skedaddled out of there by 0830, right into the teeth of a 30-knot breeze out of the east (exactly where we wanted to go). The channels in between the islands here are notorious for heavy weather, seas and strong current and that is what we got this afternoon, translated into a little butt-kicking for us. Dan spent over an hour getting pounded by waves on the foredeck to get the storm jib on so we could make some way to weather. By the afternoon, though, the wind backed about 30-degrees, and we were able to crack off and have a fast sail into Lahaina.

We are currently anchored north of Lahaina, in Mala Harbor. Even though we were pretty exhausted when we got here, we couldn't resist unlashing the boards and going for a surf at a nice easy break just south of the harbor. Tomorrow we'll go ashore and do some exploring.


Sailing along the south side of Molokai Island, heading toward Maui.