Monday, September 5, 2016

Darwin, 6/9/2016

We are off again!
After a late night/early morning we were up and about at 07.30 awaiting the Border Force visit to clear everything. We had done all this yesterday, but there was a bit of a hoo ha with Shin and so now we are 3 on board. That's not a problem but it does mean that there will not be any Japanese style food. They brought along a furry friend with boots on who had a good snoop around the boat but found nothing.
We wandered around the start area for about an hour and then I think we may have been first over the line. Sailing at about 6-7 knots with the tide, but within the half hour the engine was back on. Slack winds forecast till around West Timor in a couple of days.
All is well on board, although we now have a lot more food and water than we will need. Not a problem though.
I got the printer to talk to this iPad yesterday, but still struggling with the sat phone email connection. One problem turns out to be the wrong password sent by the UK service provider. I will try it again later.
If I can get the email up and running I will continue to blog, otherwise nothing till we get to Lombok in about a week.

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