Noon: South 20 degrees 27 minutes, West 148 degrees 43 minutes. We're 181 nautical miles from Papeete. Making no progress against 25 kt headwinds and unbelievably violent squalls. All we can do is wait for a change in the weather. Lines are beginning to chafe and break. The jib halyard is fouled high up; we're using the spare. Part of the mizzen sheet system failed just after one of those squalls. Fixed it just before a worse one hit. With just storm jib, staysail and mizzen up, we were vastly overpowered. Getting the storm jib down on the bowsprit was athletic, to say the least, at one point much like doing a belly-flop off a high board.