Today we met up with Drew's boat, after seeing her sails on the horizon.

Here is a a copy of his email as posted on SV Third Day's blog.

Update from Drew enroute to the Marquesas
by SV THIRD DAY on Mon Sep 15, 2008 5:03 pm

Day 16 brought 138 more miles and with it came some heroism, some disappointment, and some frustration. I'm forwarding this email onto several people who aren't normally on the list because of my plea for help with the engine near the end. First though, the more entertaining stuff.

Last night, Aaron had a close call...he narrowly avoided an ink attack by a flying squid launching himself into the cockpit. And he didn't come alone, he brought a dozen of his little ink filled friends with him and the covered the port deck in a lovely purplish/black color. My jackline (the yellow webbing line that stretches from bow to stern and that we clip our harnesses into) now has a funky tie dye look. I'm not sure I like it.

This morning around 10am I was scanning the horizon and noticed a sail on the horizon only a few miles away. I gave them a call; "sailboat in the middle of the ocean, this is the other sailboat in the middle of the ocean...copy?" A minute later, an answer. "Vessel hailing, this is the sailing vessel Kudana. We are in route to the Marquesas Island and still have another 700 miles to go. We have a bit of a medical emergency on board and are in need of penicillin. Can you offer any assistance?" Loving the fact this would put off my engine work a little while longer, I grabbed my $500 waste-of-money medical kit for which i luckily only paid $300 and searched out the "drugs" pocket. We bought some pills in Ecuador standing at a pharmacy window in the middle of the street. Our way of getting across what we needed was repeating "antibiotico, antibiotico??" while rubbing our stomachs with a stressed looked on our face. It worked and we got some...enough for the crew of 5 I told her we had. I even have an entire vial of novacaine on board now with some syringes in case I get to stitch someone up (including myself) one day. Of course, the real reason we got it was that our buddy Jeremy at the marina in Ecuador said novacaine made for great entertainment when drunk or as repayment of debt. (you lost, now i get to numb your foot and watch you stumble around). But I digress...

So we went back and forth with this guy on the radio. Seems it was just him (Bob) and his wife (Dawn) on their 35' catamaran. Today marked one full month at sea for them coming out of Panama and Dawn had come down with some sort of eye infection. They had a doctor telling them via email or phone that she needed penicillin or some type of antibiotic and they had none aboard. I told him he was more than welcome to some of my stash and offered some pain killers as well (he said no we have (and I quote) PLENTY of pain killers on board). We were making about 2.5 knots better than him with the spinnaker still flying from the light morning airs so over the next hour or two I moved up ahead of him. We doused the spinnaker, pulled out the genoa, and it was decided that instead of bringing the boats to close together in the seas, he would drop his sails motor up behind us and we'd just throw the "package" overboard so he could snatch it up. Aaron pulled out a little igloo drink container and i pass him a cheapo life preserver and we toss it over to them. I saw Bob but she was at the controls so we didn't get a look at her. He was probably in his 60's. We think they were British but the accent was really, really light so we aren't positive. And that was it. So out here amidst thousands of miles of seas, in the WAY-off season we actually spot another sailboat and are able to offer assistance. That was pretty cool! They were very thankful and said he'd get us back with some whisky in the islands. They are planning to make landfall at the closest island (Hiva Oa) but I'm not sure why...it's a smaller town and 80 miles further where we're going is larger and more likely to have medical facilities. But I guess it's not my problem.

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