… so good to me….
What a wonderful song of the Mamas & Papas. Only people of about my age will know the song. Sorry youngsters, ask your grandparents who might still have one of these old black records…

It was a good morning for me and MaRe. Vincent of “Chantier Naval des Îles Marquesis” (Maintenance Marquises Service www.maintenancemarqises.com, short: MMS) responded first thing in the morning to my mail that we arrived.
About an hour later Tino the sail maker came with me on board to have look.

Mainsail can be fixed. He also will use stronger stronger ribbons than the original ribbons from Doyle Raudaschl. I also will have the ribbons through the reef holes of the mainsail be replaced by stronger ones. 2 of the them broke already and I had to stich them up.

My gennaker can’t be repaired any more. Tino recommended I get a new one from New Zealand.
I can follow his argument and will get new one.
If someone reads this lines and knows a good sail maker in New Zealand, please send me name and email address ASAP to skipper-cat-mare@myiridium.net.

After I brought Tino back on land, I unmounted the mainsail. It’s always a challenge. Finally we could get into a package an bring it to Tino who will start working on the sail first thing on Thursday morning.

Tomorrow we will go into the village and see what’s there.