Day thirteen galap to Marq
Zepher
Chris & Lyn Darch
Sat 7 Jun 2008 20:33
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06:59.88S
118:19.21W
More Bounce per mile than Zebadee ..
Yes folks it still bouncing along here with still
more to come , my coconuts are all jumbled up in the veg locker I cant find them
amongst the spuds onions and red cabbage ..
Almost 1800 nm covered so far and with 1200
to go we are looking forward to the nice flat calm bays ahead of us .. Ike in
Rhythm got in yesterday to Hivo Oa , he called lastnight on the ssb and gave us
the low-down on the place, layed back customs and immigration was the first
thing he had to report , that's great no more masses of trees to chop down to
enter a county , good old France , we just have to poodle up to the Gendarmerie
and show our faces with passports , then just report to the local cops at each
island , we don't actually clear in to French Polynesia until we get to Tahiti
.
The garden on the bathing platform grows even as we
speak , we seem to have lost our pet crab ! probably washed away in
the following seas that slap our bum frequently every 10 seconds or so
.
On the sailing front we tried to rig the twin head
sails yesterday in 12 to 14 knts of wind , ended up damaging the Yankee
, our bolt ropes on the sail kept sliding out and we had them both halfway
up the foil when one of them pulled out it went nearly to the top then
decided to catch and tore the last 2ft off of the sail , Lyn will be on the
sewing machine in Marquises repairing it , so we are on our Yankee only as
the wind speed is above our Gennicker range of operations , we are
still managing six knots though ..
The chefs are still maintaining good fair inspite
of the galley gyrations so we are all still in good spirits , an interesting
point has been made by two contributors about the "Snicker" was it used to catch
the larger fish , it was noted that after a few years of only eating fish the
larger fish may want a change , what better bait to use than a snicker ! that
puts Lyn in the frame as well !
Anyway its good day to you all from the Bounce
Castle .. hope it doesn't go pop !
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