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well after a month

in downtown measure it is now time to

head out and we are now at animate

what a minute in a minute one of those

we are basically six miles outside of

measure a lovely little coconut

palm-fronded island and we're hoping to

hang out here for a few days and just

recharge our batteries bit of a long

weekend away

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anamonic is a small island within the

lagoon less than an hour sail from

downtown majoro

and it's very popular as a quick getaway

white sand palm trees crystal clear

water and some

nice diving spots it's the perfect place

to escape the hustle and bustle of town

for a few days

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the weather in majaro is affected by the

inter-tropical convergence zone which

brews up rain schools

it can be sunny one minute and pouring

with rain the next

however the squalls usually blow through

quite quickly and then normal service

can be resumed

after a short and welcome break we

headed back into majero

we'd heard that the mayor of ilook one

of the outer was in need of

some help

we were very keen to meet with him and

find out more

how's your tuesday going very good

thanks we are still

stuck in the marshall islands in the

fact that we're in majuro lagoon

and trying to work out uh how to get

out of ireland uh potentially with this

covid

thing that's going on we've been told as

visiting yachts we're not allowed to go

to any of the outer

but the virus isn't actually in the

marshall islands yet

we are still thankfully covered free

yeah the the um

the directive not to go out of ireland

is

has been driven by the mayors and they

have

um each of the atolls they they look

after and that was something that they

decided in one of their conferences

about six weeks ago yesterday you spoke

to the mayor of i look

which is an about 200 miles from

here and uh we went for a cup of coffee

in a chat with him today

and mr typhoon mr typhoon what a

fabulous name that is very nice chap

but um it turns out that there's a

problem with one of the ferries

uh that normally does deliveries out to

the outer islands

and looks like because of this ferry a

lot being able to deliver

some supplies we will be able to do that

on their behalf

and therefore travel to the atoll so

we've got a few

bits of paperwork that we need to

organize we're going to

pop back in this afternoon um to sign

those and if that all goes well

then we need to stock the boat up and

look for a weather window

and hopefully head out to ireland which

would be lovely because as nice as

measurable lagoon is it will be nice to

see some of the other

we're quietly hopeful but uh

with most of the paperwork in the

marshall islands until things

are finalized then we'll uh we'll

celebrate that i think but for now

we'll see how this meeting goes this

afternoon

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so here we are in the office of internal

affairs

mark and andrew you've got something on

the top left

yeah i'm just trying to and andrew's

friend

makes me look more serious and i have my

mustache

with a meeting with the man if i look

trying to get a permanent look

to go to eye look

mark knows the names i'm so versed with

all of this anyway fingers crossed chaps

permission to go so after a very

successful meeting with mayor typhoon we

met up with yoland the head of internal

affairs

he signed the necessary paperwork to

give the three yachts permission to

deliver supplies to ilook at all

while we were in the office mayor

sampson from our at all arrived

he also seemed very keen for us to visit

so yoland agreed to sign permissions for

us all to visit our at all too

a bonus that we weren't expecting but in

your case you were helping the mayor

so you guys are going there to deliver

something

materials that they need so

he's aware of it and he's aware of this

so

we can weave it okay

who can and he's just given us our

permits to go to ireland

and to our we say thank you very very

much indeed yolanda

thank you george a pleasure yeah and uh

you'll be in that you'll be in the next

video

gentlemen have we had a result that is

very successful very good

we now have permits to go to you're

totally peppered

i look and hour and we are very happy

nice work wow that was a good result

great result permit for eye look and a

permit for hour thank you

thank you mr tofu cheers and mr samson

yes oh was a bonus at all thrown in at

the end eh

because it may happen to be in the

office two for one and when

going out tonight to quietly celebrate

at the time

having uh had a successful day yesterday

and being granted our permission to go

to ilook and our

um we are having a bit of a sort out

this morning which generally makes means

making a mess first of all there's the

laundry well that's half of the laundry

because what we're also going to do is

take all these cushions off because

they're

filthy and get them all washed and then

you've been busy doing this which is our

spreadsheet rob likes a spreadsheet and

sorting out some stuff from the builders

that got weeviled yesterday

yeah we've got weevil so i've given the

builds a bit of a wipe but now i've

sorted this out for

weevil protection so every anything in a

bag is going in a sealed box

to stop them getting in and then open

boxes

these are all cans and more robust

containers of themselves so it should

work quite well

and then we are going to have a look at

our list which is here and decipher what

we need to go and buy at the shops

yeah i think we've got uh we've got a

pretty good base stop

we're planning that once we're out there

that we will be away for

an extended period this time yeah

probably about six six or seven weeks if

we can manage it

easily so we want to be fully stocked so

we've got a busy week ahead

on double trouble i'm just

filling up this 4kg bottle emptying this

9kg

so that we can get uh get some

new gas today and fill up

these small ones are the ones that fit

under in our gas locker

and the 9kg ones are too big but we have

this handy transfer device

that we've got from australia when the

small ones run out we cross-feed it just

means we can store more gas on board

without having heaps and heaps of these

tiny little bottles

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we are going to go and get our gas fill

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today

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and then it was time to start loading

the goods for delivery to eye look

offshore haven took the first load and

we taught mark and orange some proper

english expressions

it's good how does it feel that you're

like no no no i'm happy as larry this is

nothing

we'll have you talking new zealand by

the end of the trip

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offshore haven left in the early hours

of this morning and they're having a

lovely sale apparently

they're having a great time yeah and

we're uh we're just waiting on a couple

of things to come in

and possibly get another order from

the mayor's son yeah they're asking us

to take some stuff up which is the

reason that we're going up there but

yeah we should have gone with offshore

haven because it sounds like they're

having a lovely sale

while we slop around here but we weren't

ready so

no and uh it looks like there'll be a

similar wind shift later in the weeks

we'll just play these schools are just

funny

somewhat of a contrast to yesterday

we're having no wind day

the first one we've had since we've been

here isn't it i think so

so it means we can fix our headset do

you want to tell us what's going on

there mr b

uh yeah this um this happened on our

last crossing up to

to rower and this came off the

sail the foot of the sail or the clue

sorry

and uh it it's basically used to pull

this line tight so as you can see it was

nibbling away down here

so i've just got some dyneema

and uh done some stitches around it

so fortunately i have some of this very

thin dyneema so this is

super strong the brake strain on this is

probably

just under a ton which is ridiculous but

uh it means we can use it as sewing

thread just it's just threading the

needle is the hardest bit

so i've just put double loops on all of

these and now i'm going to tie a knot in

this

and we'll be done and this as rob was

explaining tightens the foot of our sail

jobs are good very good

and now i'm just going to burn these and

melt it all down into a

bit more of a stopper knot so it doesn't

slip and uh

yeah we're done excellent at all before

breakfast

well the sun's just setting rob's out

taking some video

and the boat is upside down we are

prepping to go to i look tomorrow

hopefully we've got the last of the

shopping done i think we're sitting a

lot lower in the water than we should be

let me show you the sunset because it's

lovely

it's been a busy day hasn't it there's a

few days

we've got all the fuel today picking

some stuff up tomorrow and then

that should be it will be away tomorrow

evening

looking forward to getting out here yeah

yeah very much so

all right the next load was being taken

by uno mas

so back to the dock we went

this time it was mostly rice and flour

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that's a lot of rocks

can you imagine uh 50 bags of those

no that's what malola lab needed

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good job team gonna have some very happy

villagers when we get there i think

it's three o'clock and we were off to

meet the mayor's son on the dock

got a last pickup of um

supplies for them and then come back few

last things to do get the

outboard back on and everything's stowed

away and then we'll be off cool

let's go and get whatever it is we need

to get is mr typhoon's son

yes yes but we're very pleased to be

taking this stuff up to i look for you

is there another box is there more

on the bottom and that's the flower

that's good is that everything

and that is the last of our stuff to

take to eye look

jobs are good

so after some glorious weather the last

couple of days

how're we going there chad it's the

laura sod the rain has rolled in

and the squalls have rolled in and we're

just making a decision whether to uh

whether we go out this evening whether

we give it another couple of hours and

see what happens or whether we make the

call and go out

tomorrow it's not wild and wooly or

anything but there's just a wall of

grey behind us we're just going to suck

it and see for another hour

and make the decision as to

what we're going to do but it's um

it's not looking very clement is it no

so we've just looked at the grips again

we have and mark has just downloaded the

uh mark marino mass has just downloaded

the satellite and apparently there's

some pretty nasty stuff just north of

here and it's a rule if we're not happy

we don't go out

like i say if you're out in it and it

hits you then you deal with it

you don't choose to go out in it if you

don't have to and we don't have to the

wind is absolutely fine for us to leave

it this time tomorrow

so that's what we're doing we're making

a call um we would rather be safe out

there would rather have a decent run up

there obviously

um so yeah that's the call we're gonna

make and we are gonna head off uh

probably at about four or five o'clock

tomorrow

after yesterday evening schools we have

a magnificent

sunrise welcoming us to the day and it

bodes well

for a departure later on today up to

ilock so we're very much looking forward

to that

and for now we're just gonna have a cup

of tea and enjoy the sunrise

that's something nice it's raining

again it was gonna be a nice morning

at five this morning it was a glorious

sunrise it's actually

dark isn't it yeah

there's a big uh system just to the

south of us so yeah the uh

intertropical convergence zone is

sitting just south of us which is

causing

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are we going yeah good we're just

checking the weather uh we tried to get

out of here last night but the

weather was appalling so we pulled the

plug and we're looking at the weather

for getting out this evening and it's

looking okay

uh this is the basically predict wind

see we're here

this big purple band that you see across

here is what's known as the

intertropical convergence zone

and unfortunately it's sitting right

over uh marjora at the moment

but if i this is now so this the

basically the color the the darker the

color indicates the heavier rain pink is

the nasty crap

and this is what we're getting at the

moment and it's yeah it's kind of not as

heavy as it was but if i take you

forward to this evening

this is us here we're moving into the

light blue area

and we're hoping to get out in that band

this evening once obviously you can see

once we're north of here that this all

will basically get out of the zone it

clears up and it's going to be hopefully

plain sailing from there

good stuff and then from a wind

perspective it looks like it's going to

be a fairly good angle and it's going to

be about

15 to 20 knots maybe this is our wind

angle here these are the gusts so it

always looks a bit higher on the gusts

um so we've got maybe gusts of about 18

knots

and it's coming from an east northeast

three direction which is great we're

sort of heading on this angle so we

should have it

it's probably going to be slightly

forward of the beam but hopefully it

won't be too much on the nose

and uh the gusts are not going to be

going to be too hefty out there we're

heading

up here off the map somewhere but yeah

we're hoping for a good run

and it's going to take us about 40 hours

we think so yeah

good well we have just had the mother of

all squalls go

through for the last hour or so it has

been

persisting down fairly heavily we are

seeing some

cloudless sky um

upwind of us which is quite a nice sign

um so we think

we're gonna up anchor and get the flock

out of here

well we're finally leaving it's not the

best weather we've ever left it

i think we might have a scaly night

however there's a little bit of blue sky

over there

yeah it looks quite nice actually

remember that for later

we finally made our way out of majero

past the huge factory fishing boats and

out towards the pass

but what would prove to be another

squarely passage

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