[password] Boatfloat66

[position] 15 09.507S 166 56.908E

[speed] 0knts

[heading] 0T

[status] Life has settled into a routine here in Big Bay while we wait for a weather window to head back to Australia (possibly via Chesterfield Reef). The boys have been attending the local school while we have been tidying the boat and doing some preparation. Yesterday it was detailed navigation planning, including contingency routes and waypoints followed by scraping the growth off the waterline. For those of you with Navionics charts; you should have low expectations regarding the detail and accuracy of these charts for this part of the world and you definitely need an alternative means of planning and navigation (just look at the Chesterfield Reef!). Kris has also been tearing the contents of the boat apart. We are certainly still well stocked, no chance of starvation here! The school has benefited from us doing a final dump of education appropriate relief supplies. To the amazement of the Principal, we turn up each day with another backpack full of stuff. The Kindergarten on route to the school now also double as an under 6 clothing distribution centre.

[weather) 10kt SE (in the bay), 0.5m swell, 100% cloud, 1013 baro
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