We started early on Monday. I jumped into the water to do the final cleaning of the hull. Tobi prepared breakfast and took dry laundry from the ‘”clothesline”, the railing and the genoa sheets. Then we took off for the dinghy dock we used several times already, First we walked to the immigration center and…

S 15° 30.817 E 167° 10.199 After breakfast, while Tobi worked on the kitchen, I did the next step of our laundry work. Thereafter we took off for doing our errands ashore. I needed to refill a propane gas bottle, and Tobi wanted to shop for vegetables and fruits. We found a nice anchorage up…

We got 635 l of water into the tank. It was quite a tiering work. We shuttlesd with the tender 9 times to the beach. The Beach Front Resort let us take a much water as we wanted. Very friendly people. Fortunately, OBM brought some Japanese tea with her to be given away to people…

The other day I wanted to start the genset to recharge the batteries a bit more. I started the genset and the engine control board shut it down immediately. Fault code 45 no sensing of speed. As it was night i used the PRT engine to recharge the batteries. A 4-letter word escaped my mouth.…

Preparations for departure to Kiribatis’ Tarawa are going on well. Today I filled already 40 l of spare diesel into the tank. A bit later we want to go ashore and get another 80 l. Ideally 60 l can go into the tank and 20 l can remain in a jerry can, which can be…

First from Vanuatu we will sail about 1200 NM to Tarawa, Kiribati Islands. Second, from Tarawa to Majuro, in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Time wise, will Kiribati and Marshall island be in November. When we leave from there, we will sail more or less a western course through the Federal States of Micronesia.…

Since we are here in Luganville, maintenance, cleaning, laundry is on the daily program. However, today I’ll go around the corner of a small peninsula with a reef extending the peninsula by about 100 m to the commercial part of Luganville. I hope the marker at the outer end of the reef is well placed.…

S 16°48.076′ E 168°15.555′ On the late afternoon, of the 251026, the day after the wedding ceremony at Lamen Island, we went back to ‘our two villages at Epi Island. We wanted to apologize to the two ladies who wanted to prepare a dinner and coconuts jam but we could not show up as promised.…

S 15° 31.382 E 167° 09.957 Yesterday, around 1700, we dropped the hook in Luganvile, Espritus Santos Island. It’s about 80 NM NNE of Epi Island and our last stop in Vanuatu. We left in the afternoon of the day before yesterday in nice breeze and sail with a wind from 120 – 150 deg…

We got up at 0600 and both of us felt recovered from the short Covid 19 bout we had. After a quick breakfast we took the tender and went ashore, where Andrew was supposed to meet us and go with us over to Lamen Island. However, William showed up, told us that Andrew is drunk,…