Just like at home, the chores never end. Maybe even more so on a cruising boat. Winds are light and seas are flat all day today, which is ideal to catch up on spiffing the boat up. The weather has turned to shorts and t-shirts weather from here on out, so all the warmer clothes and foul weather gear is packed away for the passage back north sometime in the future.

The water tanks were all topped off with the watermaker, produced about 50 gallons today. I guess since we can make water, with no issues to date, we continue our liberal use. That would all change if an issue arose with the system. For those considering a WM, my decision to go with 110V rather than DC I believe was a better choice. We make about 20 GPH, and a DC would be down around 7 GPH, and we still would need to run some form of engine, diesel/Honda. The Honda is definitely worth it's weight.

The stores are starting to recede a bit, we provisioned well, with the intent of possibly not being able to resupply until Papeete. After nearly two weeks of consumption, it is a little easier to find stuff, rather than rummaging around a locker for that missing box of rice or candy bar. Some previous cruisers have had issues with their reefer, we seem to have the opposite, everything is frozen. Not a bad problem to have, Maybe the thermo stat just isn't working proper;y, we have solved that by just manually tuning the thing off periodically.

Time to go, I'm on the midnight watch, so need to get back to my star gazing.

John