Another few miles, another time zone change. I feel sorry for the Tuamotus as they are in the same time zone as Tahiti, but nowhere near as far west. They suffer with early nights and light mornings.

So we are now at UTC-10 or 11 hours behind the UK due to summertime. We will be on this time zone for a couple of months - until we leave French Polynesia. Then we have one more time zone to cross before we do the international date line as we head to Tonga.

All well onboard. Champagne sailing overnight with clear skies, following seas and sane winds. Seas building today (about 3m swell but long and slow). Reasonably sunny though, so life is good :) On course for arriving at the pass into Amanu at slack water low tide on Wednesday. Only need to make 4.7knots average to make that, so we will continue pressing on for now and slow down tomorrow evening once we are within engine range. Been caught out by the wind dropping after we slowed too early...