Aloha..
This leg started weird..
After I lifted up anchor in Kaneohe I steamed through the narrow channel towards the ocean. The waves grow bigger and bigger as far as I went. Not only bigger but very short and steep. I ended up in around 8-10 ft waves with a 4-5 seconds frequency. It was a wild ride and ZERO only could go with around 2 knots against them.

When I had free room to set sails I hailed the mizzen but the halyard got tangled up on my maststeps at the masttop. No way to free it from below so I had to climb the mast.. I had to go above the spreader which is approximately 2/3rds of the mastheight to free the halyard. Because of the waves I was moving up there in a big circle!  But I got it done without any incidents.
The sea was so wild and ZERO and I were bounced around that I felt a little seasickness creeping up my throat.

When I had my sails up, Genua 2/3 and mizzen in first reef I reduced rpm of the engine and it stopped!?
F..K?! Without the engine pushing me in low rpm I wouldn’t be able to clear the reef on the northern tip of Oahu, called Kahuku Point. It was to far upwind and I need the engine to hold that course. So I found myself in danger of a rocky leeshore.
I had to make a decision. Return to Kaneohe bay, tack or fix the engine.

Jumping head first into the engine room would push my seasickness into a final stage but I didn’t want to go back to Kaneohe and tacking wouldn’t bring much more than buying time..
So I decided in favor of option C. I was lucky to find out that I just messed with the fuel switch and I only had to bleed the fuelsystem after switching to the other tank. But it took around 5 min anyway which meant that I ended up airing one’s belly..  but with a running engine!
Now I was officially seasick. So far so good!

It took another 2 hours to round the Cape and alter course to my destination.  I rested in the cockpit and tried to avoid “airing”  to much.
With the wind coming from around 140 degree over the starboard quarter the movement of the boat got better and with the fresh breeze of 24-26 knots ZERO was surfing waves with 8-10 knots, sometimes more!! It was an awesome ride.
I went downstairs and took up position on the settee in the pilothouse. Much more comfortable here and I prepared ZERO and myself for the night.
To deal with my seasickness I drank slowly a protein shake and layed on my back.
The alarm was set for 30 minutes. That would be my rhythm for the next 10 hours.
The electronics were set to tell me everything what enters a circle of 12 miles around me.
3 big ships passed me during that night but they kept a big distance and I could see them clearly on AIS and radar. The protein shakes worked good and I felt a little better..

After a couple hours of speeding I reduced the Genua to slow down a little. Even when I liked it so fast, ZEROs decks were flooded with seawater everytime when on of the big waves hit us AND I definitely didn’t want to arrive in darkness! I did the math and with this speed I would arrive at 5 am. And we had a moonless dark night. NO WAY!

It worked out like I wanted to. We arrived at 7: 30 in the morning. The anchorage was little and packed. It took me 4 attempts to find a good spot and get the anchor set properly. It’s shallow here and the water is brown so you can’t see the ground. Good thing.. It’s mud! I tested it when I hit the ground in search of a free spot to anchor.
I was tired and it started raining so I went to bed when everything was good.

I almost slept until 4 pm and rewarded myself with a hot shower and a hot dinner for finishing my first singlehanded passage before I crawled back into bed..
Another good sleep behind me I will go ashore this morning..

ALOHA