Mauritius

Anastasia
Phil May and Andrea Twigg
Tue 16 Oct 2012 13:33
20:09.6S 57:29.8E
The wind picked up overnight and we arrived in
Mauritius on Saturday at 13:00 local time, after 11 days and 5.5 hours
at sea, averaging 209 miles per day overall. In the end we had plenty of
time to clear customs and go out for Andrea's birthday dinner at the
Labourdonnais hotel.
Coming into the harbour was interesting, passing by
the Taiwanese fishing fleet and the Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior on the way
in.
18 ARC yachts are now in the small marina basin and
it is quite a tight squeeze already. Three yachts diverted to Rodriguez
Island because they were worried about cyclone Anais. Trompeta, the final
yacht to come in before the storm, is due in tonight at around
midnight.
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