We spent an extra day at Dumaran Island and caught up on a few little fix it jobs, including some more work on the water maker which is still being a bit temperamental and think we will have a couple of pumps sent to us and have them sent to Pulau. We left Dumaran Island last Sunday at 6.30am and it was flat calm as we left the island and headed to Calandagan Island. We had some lovely sailing even though we had to do a few tacks and did 41 miles to get 20 miles! We finally arrived at the anchorage at 4.15pm and what a beautiful spot, with lovely clear water and could see the bottom clearly. There was a fishing village there and would have liked to have stayed an extra day and had a look around but the next morning the wind conditions looked favourable and the sea relatively calm so at 10.20am we headed off to do an overnight passage to Naso Point at the bottom of Panay Island. This was just over a one hundred mile trip and we had a great passage with only one extra tack and arrived there at 12.30pm the next day (Tuesday, 5th). Not long into the passage the autohelm died again so ended up hand steering most of the way - thank goodness we had good conditions. At one point we found we weren't steering too well and Dave looked below to see we had something wrapped around the prop. After much humming and haring we decided to drop all the sails and Dave put on his mask and snorkel and dived under the boat to remove the baggage which turned out to be part of a fibre glass sack with a rope around it which was around the propeller. Did catch a fish on the line but once again lost it!! As soon as we arrived Dave was in to looking at the autohelm and the water maker so did not end up going and having a sleep even though neither of us had slept all night. We woke to a howling gale on Wednesday morning so had made the right decision to come across when we did and by mid morning it was blowing 30kts in the bay and would have been 40kts outside. However later in the day the wind did die. We ended up going ashore that afternoon at about 4.30pm and were made very welcome by a big extended family - lots of photos were taken and we were both handed a small glass of diluted rum!! One or two spoke a little English. They managed to ascertain that we would like some fresh fruit and vegetables if possible so after a short while one of the guys said he had a car and he would take us to get some. This guy was quite a character, very little English and he must have said “Are you happy” about 100 times. We got in his Mitsubishi 4 wheel drive along with at least a dozen extras, both children & adults, and he took us a few miles up the road to get fruit and vegetables. He was quite a character and stopped and introduced us to the Police! We gave him some money to cover the fuel costs which he was reluctant to take. We passed hot springs on the way and they were keen for us to have a swim there but we declined as would far rather have a cooling off in the sea. Eventually got back to the boat, had a swim and was just showering off on the boarding platform with fresh water when four of them arrived out in their spider boat (as we call them) with some fresh fish - the fish being all of 6 inches long. We invited them on board and as they did not want any payment managed to dig out a few articles of clothing for them. They finally left us about 8pm so cooked some of the fish for dinner. They were quite tasty but the small bones were a bit of a battle! On Thursday night at about 5pm we had a visit from our “happy guy” and the guy, who owned the boat who had come out the night before, and his 6yr old son. They bought us 3 dried fish and after a little while asked us if we liked squid. When we said yes they said we will go and get you some so off they went across the bay and came back half an hour later with freshly chilled squid and would not accept any payment for it. We gave them both a beer and a short piece of rope as they only tie their boats up with a bit of string. While on board some friends of theirs went past in their boat and gave us a few more little fish which we had that night for dinner along with some left over from the previous night. We had been watching the wind patterns and found that the wind seemed to die down in the afternoon and through the night and then get up in the early hours of the morning so on the strength of that decided that we would take off at about 10pm that night and head to Santa Ana Bay on an island some 35 miles east. We had a couple of hours sleep and then up anchored at about 10.20pm. Once outside the bay actually found the wind was a lot stronger than we thought and then about an hour out, guess what, the autohelm went on the blink again so we decided to turn back as Dave had no desire to be on the helm all night so we got back into the bay and reanchored at 12.30am. After much debate about what I would do with the dried fish decided that I would make soup out of it in the pressure cooker and we had it for lunch on Friday and it turned out to be quite nice. The dried fish certainly has a strong smell which makes it not too appealing. Haven't eaten the squid yet - they are in the freezer but might have some tonight. Dave has done a temporary fix on the autohelm but think when we get to Cebu he will have to find an engineer to do some welding on the anchoring pin which holds the clutch in place and keeps breaking off. However, yesterday we left Naso Point at 10.20am and had a reasonable passage across to Santa Ana Bay, all being doing a bit of tacking with the usual scenario of the wind on the nose and in fact did 45 miles, dropping anchor at 9.15pm last night. Dave hand steered all the way to give the autohelm repair a good chance to set. We had a track to follow but didn't bargain on all the fish contraptions in the bay which were unlighted and we ended up hitting one, although Dave thought at the time it was an unlit barge but when we got up this morning we found it was in fact one of the local fish contraptions. Also found that we had anchored over a fishing net so shifted anchorage this morning and fortunately found that we weren't hooked on the net, so breathed a sigh of relief. We are going to spend the day here and move further north tomorrow but it will only be a 13 mile trip to a city which is on the East Coast of Panay Island - there is a narrow channel between this island and Panay. Haven't managed to find the name of this island which Santa Ana Bay is on.