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[pos]35 14.039s 174 10.083e
[s]In Twin Lagoon Bay, Roberton Island in very calm conditions. Lovely to be back out in the Bay of Islands – there are too many yachties discussing weather forecasts and fretting about visa expiry dates in Opua! Here we’ve had a swim in clear (and not too cold) water and enjoyed a walk ashore.

We’re in no rush to leave NZ, which is just as well because the forecasts for a passage to the tropics doesn’t look great at the moment and we have just discovered that Constance our autopilot has lost her sense of direction. She’s a game old girl but needs some expensive transplants so the cruising fund is about to take an unwelcome battering.[END]