It’s been an interesting time here in Bundaberg.  A good combination of fun and work.  Managed to get the crucial repairs done, new starter switch for the motor, re-riveted most of the mainsail track and re-attached the spreader bar holders on the mast, replaced the water tank, and a dozen other things I cant think of right now.

The sail here from Vanuatu was, well, interesting seems to describe it well.  I started off beating into 20+ knots of headwinds, and by choice.  I was trying to get to a little island called Tana to see an active volcano and remote village.  After three days of brutal torture and a very wet Salsa (inside and out) I gave up and turned West for Australia, heading down wind everything calmed down a lot and it was a decent sail until the last two days where the wind disappeared and then came back in the wrong direction.  Overall I think it took 14 days and I probably could have done it in 9 or 10 easy days had I not tried for Tana, oh well, only used the motor a total of 8 hours, I’ll elaborate on the passage on here some day as I have a pretty good log/journal that will hopefully prove interesting.

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