Yesterday morning I woke up and felt sick. Pretty sick. Head aches, terrible cough, sneezing, and running nose. When I got up and met Tobi he felt the same way. We caught in Port Vila, most likely in the supermarket a virus. And now the virus has us. We hang around on board, being happy…

In the morning I didn’t do my workout because i had some urgent mails to write. Additionally my sports clothes were still wet, what a nice excuse. We did what’s needed since a while: boat cleaning. Starting at the bow, the gangway, the cockpit and the cockpit cushion. Tobi worked on adding a rubber damper…

At 1145 the anchor went down in Lamen Bay and it seems it has a good hold. The Lamen Bay is the way I like it. Quite. A small village ashore. Locals are traveling to the l little Lamen island on the other side of the bay on their small, often a bit heavily loaded…

We had the fun range of winds last night including frequent changes between S, E, N and the sound spinning of the wind indicator needle in full circles around the wind dial. I had my first squalls since quite a while. The first one was quite strong with 26 KN and Tobi woke me up.…

I had a deep sleep from 1900 till about 2030. Then it was an on- off sleep. At 2130 I offered Tobi to go to bed and take over a bit earlier. The night is quite. The wind comes pretty much from E and around 10 KN. Thus, it follows the forecast. At daylight we…

We are already out of the bay of Port Vila. However, still running with the engines because the wind is still too weak for sailing. I hope we get more when we are more outside. I’m looking for nice southerly wind which blows us north to Epi Island. Decision was made to depart today because…

Yesterday I took on the task to get the washing machine running again. However, it didn’t work. So far I always needed to replace a certain resistor and the PCB was working again. This time there is software log up and I can crank it. Thus until Japan no washing machine. This morning I started…

It took only a few minutes until someone saw me. However, the gentleman needed to tell me that they don’t do inlays and crowns, thus don’t have the cement needed. I asked him for the address of clinic, which possibly could do the work. He indicated me one. 2 1/2 km away. Another clinic, another…

We left at 0800 from MaRe. Tying up the tender at the dinghy dock we found yesterday, took a bit longer. Then we went to the NAMBAWAN coffee shop to see if their new Starlink works today. It works and we have a place where we can send messages to each other. I headed up…

… for 3 h to find a dentist. Then I found two. The Dental Clinic of Vila Central Hospital and Novo Dental Clinic. Vanuatu has an unusual way to describe an address. 69HW+G4X is an address. OsmAnd maps doesn’t understand this code and the AI Le Chat could not convert this address into exact coordinates.…