17:35.973S 177:26.475E
Luceyblue
Ina&Buc&Simon&Amanda
Thu 17 Sep 2009 07:50
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We arrived in Fiji last night, so came through the
reef and set the anchor down. A very pleasant sail it was, the lagoon is pretty
wide at the entrance, and we were making 7.2 kts in flat water, a nice change
from all the motoring we had to do previously! Quite a trip it`s been, fun sail,
35+kts, and dead flat calm.
This morning we motored up to Lautoka to clear in,
rain so hweavy the vis was down to about 200 mtrs, it has stayed that way all
day, something of a bind really. As soon as I put the anchor down, I took the
dinghy ashore with Bill from VH to clear in. that was at 1230, we came back to
the boat, having walked all over town in the rain, at 1620, still not finished,
we have to go back in to see the quaranteen officer in the morning.
It turns out that they have been busy aboard LB,
the anchor started to drag alamost as soon as I left, and Ina, Simon and Amanda,
along with a range of friends from other boats have reset the anchor no less
than 5 times. We dragged again once I got back, so I had another unsuccessful
go, and then Chas from All the Colours suggested that we pick up a
bouy.
We are sitting on the bouy now, and hope it holds
for the night. The forecast is for more wind and rain, so we think we might
try to find the local marina to try and get
out of the rain!
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