[password] pilot25041
[position] Raivavae
[status] well another day dawned .......... again bright blue skies and generally sunny, a few clouds late morning and some light rain before lunch, which was quite pleasant.
An early morning sojourn ashore resulted in a fresh french stick for lunch and 2 more ordered for Tuesday, the next day they deliver ...... result!!
The 'big' alternator was removed from the stbd engine and a visit to the gendarmerie resulted in knowledge that there are 2 'garages' within walking distance on the other side of the island ....... so after our fresh bread lunch, we went ashore took the 'short route' over the hill and 15mins later were on the south side .......... no garage at the first gendarmes identified location, a mile or so later we think we identified the potential garage next to "pension chez linda", well it was the only property with 3phase electric going to it!
On Monday we may return but at the moment are not overly optimistic at locating any spares for our faulty alternator in Raivavae, we have asked for advice from our local friendly electrical expert in Auckland and will then decide the best course of action. We then walked on to the new airport, before heading back to the boat, stopping on the way to buy a large tub of chocolate & orange ice cream for today and a frozen chicken for tomorrow's dinner ........ when a full roast is on the menu!
The other boats spent all day offshore & outside the reef fishing, this time there was a lack of stories about "the one that got away", and nothing was caught ....... so our near miss with the 'garage' was possibly the more productive day! We then hosted Pzazz & Taronui for sundowners ....... another convivial evening!!
We're currently watching the grib files to ascertain when we depart for Rapa with the mid week weather looking the most promising. Everyone is well on board, we continue to fix and manage our snags and hopefully Lyn won't need to carry a 150amp alternator in her hand luggage to Papeete in 3 weeks time!!
[weather] wonderful, light winds E going N, little cloud cover.
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