We have water and more Dinty Moore stew, so I guess we're ready to go. Oh! We're having our laundry done also. I'm out of my unmentionables. I tried to check out of the country today, but immigration (the guys that stamp my passport) were at the airport today. It seems that Wednesday is the day the airplanes come and go. I was hoping they'd come back to the office, which was open but unattended; but they never came back. So I'm off tomorrow to get my passports stamped and then we're off.

Special Thanks to Tim for all his help. No doubt he's scarfing down some pizza or a big cheeseburger right now.

Tonight I was invited to dinner at the guys house where I beach our dingy. They were burning the hair off the pig when I was there this morning, so it should be interesting. The guy is the harbormaster of Christmas and seems to be a very nice. He gave me a lesson on how they get syrup from coconut trees today, which I didn't even know was possible.

The island has run out of rice, and sugar until the ship comes later this month. I gave him my rice and sugar today; we have Dinty Moore!

Kathy's setup some professional weather routing for me on this leg, so I'm hoping it'll be an easy trip.

We took the roller furling completely apart today and still couldn't figure out what was wrong with it.

BTW - we had to buy 132 1.5 liters bottles of water in order to resupply the boat. Hmmm... I'm not sure Captain Cook did it the same way.

Okay, thanks again for all your comments, prayers and well wishes. We're really looking forward to our prison sentence being over with.

Sean