S 18° 39.164,
W 173° 58.977

When we sailed from NZ to Vava’u there was a bottle of liquid detergent standing behind the seat at the navigation desk. A big wave, often called bump, lifted Joe from the seat and placed her on the detergent bottle. The result was a big crack in the bottle and a nice spill of detergent on the floor.

We removed this spill immediately with rags and towels. As I need always rags and towels I placed them in the washing machine with a few other clothes.

Yesterday we decided to do this laundry. While the machine was running the detergent in the rags and towels created foam. So much foam that it spilled heavily out of the machine. We cleaned all and run a program just with water. It didn’t help and we took out all the laundry and rinsed it with seawater until we felt it’s enough.

A part back in the washing machine and it was still too much detergent. We removed another part of the still too soapy pieces and replaced them with dry clothes to be washed. This finally worked.

Therefore keep in mind that “Just when you think everything is fine and life is easy, a problem comes from somewhere around the corner!” In this case a homemade one.

Beside this I could complete the the documents for the Advanced Notice of Arrival. A major work. When all was done, I sent 16 pages of PDF files to Fiji. Fortunately, the marina in which I could reserve a berth, l provided us with an email address on where to sent all these documents.

I will use the marina’s service of doing the clearance procedure for us because I read that without an agent, the procedure can take a week… A way to make money, a game I have to play.

Beside this I changed the departure by 24 h because the weather forecast predicts much more favorable winds for a start on Tuesday.

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