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Now that we’re in Denarau the boat work begins. Helen has ramped up into interior organising / cleaning mode. For the last year the front starboard berth has been used for storage. That has now (almost) all been stowed elsewhere. I have to confess, my project work was not that extensive yesterday. Usually my role, […] As the morning progressed, the tide lowered and the waves had a harder time breaking over the reef. We completed two washes and replenished the water tanks. We ate lunch at Namoutu but left straight after as the anchorage was filling with tour boats. We thought we may stay the night outside Port Denarau but […] Our plan had been to reach Namouta Island and rest here a couple of days before heading to Denarau. We’d heard it was a nice anchorage with good holding. As expected, there was little to no wind so we motored here from Mana. We arrived at low tide. The anchorage was indeed calm and we […] While we’ve been here in Fiji I’ve settled on looking at three sets of information for my weather forecasts. The first is a synoptic picture, something very much like the picture that is shown by weathermen on the TV showing where all the highs, lows, fronts and cloud/rainfall are. This gives a very useful overview. […] 8am has now become our favourite departure time. As we travel south it’s just right in terms of improving visibility. So by 8am we were again off. This time we had about 14nm to travel. We managed to sail, albeit very slowly, most of the way to Waya but ended up motoring once we encountered […] |
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