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[status] 0600 28 May 2018. Weather has been dismal. See below. No sun. Just enough drizzle keep us in our boats, but insufficient to add any meaningful amount of water through the rain catchment to our tanks. Thankfully, the watermaker is working just fine. Spent yesterday watching 3-movies, reading, and eating. Two boats came in raising the Minerval Reef Yacht Club fleet to 8. One, a converted fishing vessel to a crusing power boat had, for an anchor light, a solid red light under a flashing all around white light. Obviousily, the skipper has never taken a basic boating class as that is not a recognised anchor light under the International Rules for Prevention of Collisions at Sea. And the anchor drop was typically amateur. It slowly came to a stop while two men went forward to the anchor. Boat stopped, anchor was dropped, and the two men returned to the pilot house without the boat backing down to set the anchor. Fortunately, this boat of knuckleheads parked well behind us. Yes, it's scary how some of these vessels survive.

Weather still looks like we leave tomorrow morning for Fiji.

[weather] Since yesterday about 1000 we have a non-stop light drizzle. It continues now. Winds yesterday were ESE - SE 5-7kts most of the day, rising to 13kts for a time early evening. Last night to now it was ESE 5-7kts, with is slightly rising to 10kts now. 100% cloud cover. 1011 on the Bar.

Cheers
John & Leilani

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