blowing dogs off chains here

the seren oddessy
steve and dee
Wed 2 Sep 2009 19:15
We had an interesting evening here. Wind gusts to 60knots, blew the milk right out of your coffee, dinghy flipped 3 times, We lost the oars and our shoes. Next morning, After cleaning the outboard and pumping the water out of its engine we took a ride around the motu opposite us. We searched a good couple of miles of shore (Met a few very weird locals with nasty hillbilly dogs) and surprisingly came up with two of the pairs of shoes we lost. Luckily Dees fancy Keens were one pair.
Sadly, Nickies old faithfuls were not among the rescued. Memorial services will be held today.
Likewise the oars and seat are just a fond memory. We have picked up some drift wood and will make some new ones on the way to Suwarow.
Our friends boat Valiem had their headsail partialy unfurl on them (the headsail is wound up on the stay to store it) so steve went over to help them unfurl it completely and furl it again. It was quite a job in that wind.
The general feeling in the anchorage is that we were all glad we were not at sea.
We picked up a heap of coconuts that had blown down so we have a good supply now.
We are going in to the gendarmes to clear out today. We sail on the tide tomorow(theres only 6 inches of tide here but it sounds nautical)

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