Day 6 Position Report 11 25.70 S 160 54.81 W 1200 CIT

Mark_needler
Professional Skipper
Thu 15 Sep 2011 22:08
 
Midday 15/09/2011
 
We have made good progress the whole trip up to Manihiki and we are now at the finally stage of this leg and will be anchoring up outside Manihiki at approximately 2200 hrs tonight. We have had no problems along the way and the weather at the moment, apart from being a bit lumpy has been on the whole good to us. 
 
We will be looking to start tomorrow morning with meeting with the local elders and that is going to be carried out entirely in Maori, so with Ian's blessings I'm going to stay on board and do a bit of tiding up. 
I've noted that there are a few things that could be improved and will see what I can find on Manihiki to help with those, plus the outside of the yacht needs a good house down and then a couple of the lights are not working so I will endeavor to put these right. 
 
I think I shocked the Guys last with my cooking I did an India Curry which I made quite mild in my terms but I think for more so Ian and only a little for Natua was hotter than expected! It was going to get about three good size tomatoes going in it to help cool it a little but with the limited size pot that we had there was no room till this morning after we had eat a little bit, I sure these from more acceptable than the previous night.
 
We are all looking forward to getting our feet on dry land for a short period of time before we head off.
 
Regards
 
Mark & Natua, Ian