Day 17 Position Report 08 57.93 S 158 03.18 W 0200CIT
Mark_needler
Professional Skipper
Tue 27 Sep 2011 00:33
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We arrived in Penrhyn this
morning at 0200 and anchor just south of Taruia Passage approx 0.3nms.
This was supposed to be a good anchorage but we dragged the anchor 3 times
during the night which didn't make for a good nights sleep. When we tried
to start Orongo first thing this morning the engine was having difficulty
but did start eventually, by the time we moored up at the Quarantine Dept
in Gudgeon Bay the Engine wouldn't start again and was forcing water out of
the air intact of the Turbo!!! I suspect that the head gasket has gone add that
to the diesel bug problem in the starboard fuel tank things don't look good for
the rest of the trip at this point, I know I can solve the diesel bug problem
but I suspect that I will have difficulties getting a head gasket to
Penrhyn anytime in this decade so we are all unsure of what the future
holds at this point in time I will let you know what progress has been made
as I get through all the tasks in hand.
I can only
conclude that this trip is getting harder and harder work and in fact it hasn't
been easy from the start.
All that we
know i that it will be dam difficult to get off Penrhyn and would be easier if
we were on Manihiki as they do have a flight from
there.
Thanks
Mark
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