I could reduce PC work time until 1200 every day. This gives me more time for boat jobs. However, I still need to fully set-up OpenCPN. This might take some time.

In the mean time I got 270 l of diesel in MaRe’s tank. This will last again for a while. It was a bit so easy tasks. The 4 jerry cans I have contain about 91 – 93 l depending on the filling station attendant. The last time the attendant gave me a nice hand by carrying 2 jerry cans to the dinghy dock thus I needed to walk only once. But this very nice gesture was also a bit frustrating for me. Why? This guy in his late 20s or early 30s takes 2 20 l jerry cans and walks with them as I would do it with 2 5 l jerry cans….

I used the day when I got diesel, to go to the fruit selling stand I found recently to buy fruits. I found also pineapples on sale but they where prohibitive expensive and still pretty green. Thus, I got another delicious papaya. I like to eat the fruits of the season.

The day before I just wrote my last email for the day, when Ralf and Gaby came on board. They arrived at night a day before. The first morning of their arrival we talked briefly over our VHF radio. They wanted to relax for a day.
Thus the came the next day at noon.

The best thing was too see that Ralf can use his right arm again ; he dislocated it in June. Not yet really as before the accident, but still good enough to sail again. Daily training seems to improve the condition. We talked about what we did since I left with Shigeo the Gambiers early July. I gave them all kind of information on things I discovered and experienced here in the Tahauku Bay and Atuona. It was a long talk until 1600.

I also had to do laundry again. Thanks to the again running washing machine it’s an easy job.
I’m just fighting some stains in the mattress protecting sheet. It gut some stains which requires treatment with chlorine bleach. I hope that after 3 – 4 treatments the stains are gone.

A bit a draw back was the discovery that backrest of the helm station seat was not as it should be. When I removed it and opened the cover, I saw that at the weather side the plywood for rotten. Now I need to get a piece of plywood. I’ll first see if I can’t something from the shipyard to keep my spare material for cases where there is no possible alternative around.