Wednesday 26th March
We are now at 9.00 PM 197 miles to go, due in Friday morning around midnight to 2 AM, so I will dawdle the last few miles so as to arrive in daylight again.
I have had several emails with Schenker over the watermaker. It is such a total electrical failure that they now think it could be a fuse blown in the control box. No fuse was mentioned in the training course, and so to get at it I will have to dismount the unit and then look. I dont have a spare fuse needless to say. I will do it when we are in Hiva Oa, not at sea. We have plenty of water on board anyway.
Both Val & I have decided, quite independantly, that we would not want to do any more 3 week ocean trips again in the forseeable future. The Atlantic was a real roller coaster and quite uncomfortable and the Pacific has been quite routine every day. Some problems, but nothing major.
The fish are back on the winning trail again, 6 lures gone to 1 fish caught. Not a good ratio.
Tomorrow's dinner will be a real test of the crew. It will be sausages, mash & beans cooked by yours truly. I hope they have their sealegs now! Tonight Val rustled up a pasta with tomato sauce - delicious! We also enjoyed a bottle of Chablis. That didn't last well either...Perhaps I should feed them a bottle before producing my dinner tomorrow night.
Shin & Paul refilled the generator this evening for the last time on this leg. The main fuel tank still reads full and there's about 190 ltrs of fuel on the deck. So we are well off for fuel, despite all the motoring at the start of this leg. It's always nice to be fat with fuel, especially as it is not cheap in Polynesia - back to European prices again.
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