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Still are in Tuvalu, and may be here for a while. There's not much wind up here, and most of it is from the north east, the direction we want to go in. We get frequent brief squalls with welcome downpours. Although we had a long squall with 30 knots on Saturday. Another week maybe. It really does feel remote up here, eight degrees south of the equator. They get very few yachts up here but this year we are a crowd of eight.
Having a great time in Tuvalu. Fabulous people. We see Kailopa most days and keep meeting more of his family and community. Have been to two feasts, local drumming and dance, watched the plane arrive, a rugby match and have evening drinks with the other cruisers. I'm loving having a community of boats. We share stuff, we are all heading in the same direction, we talk over the weather, not just a social nicety in this environment.
Janet

Conditions: calm, ENE 8, 10% cloud, 28 degrees, bar 1008.7
Hi David, would you give us some information on the convergence zone. We are eight boats here now, most listening in. Until yesterday we weere getting lots of squally weather. Is this increased by the MJO pulse? Is teh pulse over us now? When will it pass (as much as you can tell). Reception not so good in anchorage but I can get a relay.
At the moment we are trying for leaving at end of the week, when there are a couple of days of light ESE, SE, then we'll probably have to motor to Tarawa as the wind goes variable.
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