It looked like I might get a nice easy downwind sail back to mainland NZ... I just had to wait for a gale or two to pass... but once they had, the weather did not look so good. Now it was gonna be many small systems, each changing from NW to SW, and usually 25 knots, or becalmed! But summer was over and I still had a lot of sailing to do... and I wasn't sure if something better would come.

So I just went anyway.