password] Tsar12
[position]16 46.76S 152 00.27W
[weather]light Easterly 5-8 knots slight seas fine
[status] after having a huge email (6gb) sent through to us it took 2.5 days to clear our system back to normal so no updates for a while sorry ! Back to normal now . The last few days of just Zuny and I were coming to a close as we cleaned and prepared the boat for the upcoming crew arrivals. Graham and Martin arrived within an hour and Martin immediately had our anchor problem sorted which had been worsened when I hooked up to an unmarked power cable of the Hilton ! After that we had to take a mooring as the anchor winch was faulty but back to normal now.
The unfortunate news is that the Spanish couple who were going to join rang us in despair as he just realised that his passport had only 3 months left and couldn?t get a new one in NZ before his flight was due to leave ( a days time!) so they had to pull out . Maybe our Spanish friends on Sayaou will take them if they can reschedule their flights so all may not be lost.
We finalised our check out on Friday, refueled Sat morn and did a big reprovision then took a mooring off Bloody Mary?s where Zuny and I were going to have our last dinner.
While motoring there our starboard motor all of a sudden lost power so I shut it down. Not good timing just before we leave but Martin who is a mechanic and I worked on it and have eliminated serious damage in the fuel pump which we feared it could be as a result of the water contamination problem we had on the way up. Any way Zuny and I had a special dinner and then we said goodbye on dropping her off at the ferry for the airport and we left for Mautipi where we will stay until Tuesday when the trades are due to kick in and we will set off for Suwarrow.
It is hard to believe the French Polynesia trip is almost over ( Mautipi still is in FP) but am certainly ready to get on the move again and the forecast suggests some reasonable trade wind sailing once we leave on Tuesday so fingers crossed.
While in Mautipi we will work on the injectors of the motor to eliminate a few things - the motor started ok but we have refrained from testing it further ( after changing fuel filter ) until we have done further work.

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