Ah, what could be better on a Sunday Morning than a frolic on the foredeck with a pair of scrubbers followed by a cooked breafast? Answers on a postcard :)

Anyway, chain locker cleaned out, scrubbed, chain flaked and corroded 'stuff' that I forgot that I had put in the locker ferreted out ready for 'chucking'. Foredeck scrubbed, sidedecks sluished-clean. Oh, it just goes on and on, I tell you. Watermaker completely serviced (crankcase oil changed, filters changed). Log impellor removed and cleaned, my heads compartment cleaned out......almost ready for sea :)

I think that must be most of my 'chores' done for the week. Still, as I type this it's almost High Noon (known on a Sunday on this boat as 'Beer O'Clock'). I might have yet another go at patching up the dingy floor this afternoon.....and tracking down yet another slow leak that's developed (again).Still, never mind.

Hoping to be off by the end of this week, assuming long-awaited funds are finally transferred into the coffers. The plan remains to spend a couple of days in las Perlas Islands then orf to Galapagos. A slightly revised timetable below:

Arrive Galapagos..................maybe 9th April

Leave Galapagos..................say 16/17th April

Arrive Marquesas..................ha, who knows? Say 25 days so the 40th April. Ah, should that be 10th May>

Leave Marquesas.................Early June (ish)

Arrive Tahiti.........................hmm, tricky. Going via the 'dangerous archipelago' so maybe early July

The above is all pure speculation of course. The reality is we'll leave Panama when all 'the ducks' are lined up and arrive in New Zealand early December.