To Kentar Island
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Tue 25 Oct 2016 22:57
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To Kentar
Island
 At twenty past five we left Ketawai at first light for the 180 mile journey to the
anchorage off Kentar Island, tomorrow afternoon we will cross the equator and
celebrate in the evening aboard Serica. No sooner had we got going than
Robbie and Putra had nipped over to Restless M to wish us all
(individually) a safe journey. Some places are harder to leave than others, this
was one of them. Soon the remaining team who looked after us so very well will
leave to go ‘back to their day jobs’ and Ketawai Island will rest until the
weekend when once more the partying can begin.
  The sun struggles this
morning.
  We pass our first
fishing platform as Casimu gets ready
to overtake.
  Relishing sailing (well motoring) in company for a change as Grasshopper passes to our right.
 Tehani-Li with Restless
M spuddling along at 9.5 knots..........
  Errol told us last night that
Restless M can go around the world on three
visits to a fuel jetty (three tanks on board hold just 31,000 litres.......
combined weight of water, petrol and diesel - a tiny fifty tons......). We watch
in awe and then Jennie D passes by. Beez is
always happy bringing up the rear but Tereva settles with her, happily
together.
 Platformland, they are all over the horizon.
  Tehani-Li (Little Darling) looking lovely and
just for a change a local girl passes in the other
direction.
  The only upset as we approached sunset was colossal losses at backgammon and
Tri-ominoes.........
 We settle for the night in a neat line, a couple of boats heading right to find
some wind.
  I had an
incredibly dark night and once again the sun
struggled to wake up.
     I went to bed at six. Bear took these pictures of sunrise.
  We played games until three miles
from the equator and then prepared to toast Neptune. We
crossed at 13:45.36 in the pouring rain, our spirits could not be
dampened though, Beez Neez has carried us more than thirty thousand miles and we
were back in the northern hemisphere.
 We crossed with Tereva and then tucked behind as we rounded the
final corner to see the anchorage.
 We waved at everyone as we passed
through to the back, to anchor next to a fishing
platform.
 A merry gaggle of
ladies gathered behind Serica for our Equator Crossing
Party.
 Adam’s official
‘welcome’.
 Karel
(Tehani-Li), Clare and Errol (Restless
M) and Melian (Indian Summer), a
wonderful evening.
ALL IN ALL A QUIET
START..........
GREAT TO CROSS TO THE
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