[password] Boatfloat66

[position] 15 08.700S 167 06.910E

[speed] 0knts

[heading] 0T

[status] Continuing our final journey north along the Vanuatu island chain. We cleared out of Luganville yesterday and will complete final country clearances at Sola in a couple of weeks. We are currently anchored in Hog Harbour as either our last or second last stop on Santo. Looks like being a nice day today but were are expecting a bit of a blow tomorrow and Sunday (as of the weather download yesterday). We got a good katabatic gust coming into Hog Harbour that immediately found the limit of our boom vang block, breaking it cleanly at the attachment fitting. With a bit of creative drilling we have it back and functioning. The real cause for celebration, however, was elsewhere in the boat. Once we get offshore we typically pump our sewage holding tank overboard (into deep water). For various reasons we suspected that the pump had failed. Having fixed this pump a couple of times before we spent the 35 mile trip psyching ourselves into what lay before us. One final, desperate check before we got the gloves on showed that it was working again (or still?). Kris rushed to the fridge and grabbed a cider and a beer and the celebration began!

For the GHR crew: the station was unreadable today due to persistent interference from another channel. Might have just been our position getting a skip from asia (by the sounds of it)?

[weather) 10kt SSE, 0m swell, 5% cloud, 1014 baro
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