To Momi Bay
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Tue 28 Jul 2015 22:47
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To Momi
Bay
 We set off from the anchorage at ten o’clock, ready to take the Pass at
half past.
  We made our way to the big rock that definitely has a face, Scott-Free coming up to it.
  The reef to our
left and to our right.
 In the Pass and the reef to our right.
  Scott-Free safely through and they’re off. A good day
sailing and a pretty evening sky.
  The skipper works
very hard during trips...........
Cheek.
  My fun ambition was to
get a wave the height of Scott-Free’s ensign, close but no
cigar.
 A lovely mahi-mahi on day one.
  The skipper is now known
as the Jibe King, sitting down does make it look easy
though. Ooo, it’s all action you
know.
 Overnight we passed an
island with reefs of amazing names - no idea how to pronounce them, then see one
simply called Caesar Rock.....
  Todays lady was just shy of five feet long, fought me every
inch of the way in and copious amounts of gin wouldn’t settle her once we got
her in the flexibucket. Bear asked me to pose with her but I could barely lift
the bucket let alone her. Topped and tailed she still hung over both sides of
the sink. Bear left Beez on flattish water for me to roughly fillet her, she
yielded many steaks, a whopping tail end for curry and a massive set of roe.
Yummy. Oo no Mrs. The we did our final jibe
in a squall with an odd gust to forty knots. So pleased I was back in the
cockpit for the twenty minute merry-go round until we reached the Pass and all
went smooth again.
 I said ‘smile’ and mucky boy complied. Is that
mayo. Yes dear.
 Happy face, despite having just taken a
wave. Marvellous fun.
  Nearing the main island
of Fiji – Viti Levu. Through the massive and well marked channel to Momi Bay.
 Unbelievable, just two boats here in
Momi Bay - the cat to the left is called Nova
and the monohull on the right is called Scotia.
 Scott-Free
just behind us in the Navula
Passage.
 The route
here may look like an odd one but in just shy of three hundred miles we
only had the engine on for the first and last half hours.
 ALL IN ALL PROPER SAILING -
YAY
GOOD WINDS IN CHALLENGING
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