Honolulu

The switch was flipped back at 1 pm, force 6, from the East-North-East.
We entered the Alenuihaha Channel shortly after that, that was pretty tough. Rough seas, force 7.
We had two reefs in the main, and only the staysail, which we changed for the storm staysail, after tearing up the first one - not too much, but enough not to carry it.
The sea calms down a bit after 7 pm, and the wind shifts too, which is good.
At 1 am the next day (Friday), the wind drops, we're in the lee of Molokai..,.
The wind comes back around 7:45 am, we're carrying the full genoa, gently approaching Honolulu.
But wait..., it's not over yet! A lot of boats were out, like if they were expecting some event, like the arrival of the Queen of England or so... Actually, this was a tsunami alert, all harbors were closed, boats had been asked to leave their anchorage or mooring, and to wait at sea for the situation to clear up!... And so did we.
At 1:30 pm, nothing was cleared. We decided to check out the Ala Wai Harbor - this one was not closed, as opposed to the Ke'ehi lagoon, which we were originally targeting (don't ask me why, it must be something like the Tchernobyl nuclear cloud at the French border, some tsunamis do not enter certain harbors...). There was no room in the marina, so we anchored outside. At last! The boat is stopped!
We'll see later what we do next.

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L'interrupteur a ete remis dans sa position originale vers 13 heures, force 6, d'est-nord-est.
On a commence a traverser le canal d'Alenuihaha peu apres, c'etait raide. Mer forte, force 7.
On portait 2 ris dans la grand'voile, et juste la trinquette devant, qu'on a remplace par la trinquette lourde, la premiere s'etant dechiree - pas grand chose, mais suffisamment pour ne plus la porter.
La mer se calme peu apres 19 heures, et le vent adonne, c'est bon pour nous.
A 1 heure du matin le lendemain (vendredi), le vent tombe completement, on est sous le vent de Molokai...
Le vent revient vers 7:45, on porte tout le genois, on s'approche gentiment d'Honolulu. Mais attends, c'est pas fini ! Beaucoup de bateaux dehors, comme s'ils attendaient un evenement special, comme l'arrivee de la Reine d'Angleterre... En fait, c'etait une alerte au tsunami, tous les ports etaient fermes, on avait demande aux bateaux de quitter leurs mouillages et leurs coffres, et d'aller attendre dehors que les choses se passent. Ce qu'on a donc fait nous aussi.
A 13:30, rien ne s'etait encore passe. On a decide d'aller voir a Ala Wai Harbor - celui-la n'etait pas ferme, contrairement a Ke'ehi Lagoon qu'on visait a l'origine (je ne sais pas pourquoi, ca doit etre comme le nuage nucleaire de Tchernobyl a la frontiere francaise, il y a des tsunamis qui n'entrent pas dans certains ports..) Pas de place a la marina, on est alle mouiller dehors. Enfin ! Le bateau est arrete !
On verra plus tard ce qu'on fait ensuite.

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