September 27, 2013 in Savusavu, Fiji
We left Vanua Balavu yesterday at somewhere around 10AM and arrived in Savusavu just before sunrise this morning after a 100 mile passage that was a mixed bag. The first part was calm, warm, sunny and very pleasant. By yesterday evening, the seas got big, the wind got strong and we were actually cold late last night and this morning.
We were going to spend another week or so visiting a couple of other islands but two factors drove us back to our home base; we have a lot of broken equipment and we don’t have a lot of food (not to mention the fact that we’re out of beer, wine, and rum).
Of the broken stuff, I am hoping none of it is too major. Here’s a brief list…
A non-functional pump on our watermaker (there’s still one that works so we’re OK for water).
Our electric Torqeedo outboard no longer runs.
Our shower sump pump quit
Something went wrong with our batteries and the voltage dropped way too low.
The computer mouse became self-aware and developed it’s own personality – a very bad one.
The heater (which we don’t use here) is leaking coolant.
And probably one or two other things I’ve blocked out.
Oh well, such is life on a cruising boat. As for the lack of food issue, we’re already started working on that with a wonderful breakfast out this morning at the Captain’s Deck: pancakes, crispy bacon, eggs and toast with cappuccinos too!
We’ve been preparing a bunch of blog posts and now that we have internet, we’ll start posting like crazy. (Right now, I have 17 New Zealand posts all done and waiting to be posted, and a lot more to come after that—Cyndi). Stay tuned and clean off your reading glasses. -Rich
