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what are we doing today we are going

back to measure

we have a bit of a weather window it's

not a perfect weather window it's quite

light winds but light winds is good

they're sort of in the right direction

as well so light end in the right

direction we'll take that

vaguely yeah should be about 40 hours 36

40 hours

yeah so we're taking the opportunity to

nick off today

saturday the 18th of july just getting

the boat ready

yeah we're pretty much ready to go so

we're just going to wait for a bit more

light and maybe leaving an hour or so

i'll let you get back on with what

you're doing thank you very much

i'm joe and this is rob and we live on

board our floating home double trouble

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bruno mars over there just putting their

sail up there's a picnic today up on one

of the islands

emily's having a uh a picnic for her

birthday which was on thursday

and mark and andre very kindly taking

about eight or nine of the villagers up

there

i want to save way down and we'll get up

get out of here and start our journey

back to measure

just pottering over the uh lagoon yes it

will be nice to get back out to the open

ocean where we don't have to do

bomby watch yes and it's looking like

uh nice easy weather and easy wind

hopefully we're just trying to work out

how

offshore haven are doing 7.8 knots and

11 knots of breeze

i suspect engines on

captain wrong we're still we're doing

sixes i suppose

we're doing 5.8 5.9

mind you i can't bother to trim the

sails

negotiating the passes in and out of

ireland lagoon

is fairly straightforward they are nice

and wide and we had

excellent weather conditions we used the

southernmost pass

which was the same one we arrived into

so we still had a track

we had also timed our arrival to be

after 10 am

so we had good light and contrast to cby

i remained on the front of dt as a

spotter and joe hand steered

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things on the helm oh yeah it's always

interesting

roof systems we've got plenty of

clearance so we're all good

brought the headset in because the wind

angle is a little bit funny we don't

want to

mess with it while we're going through

the past so we're just gonna use the

main

mainsail and um

we've got both engines on just for this

little bit

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through fairly quickly there were a few

small bombies to avoid and a bit of a

dog-leg turn to negotiate

we saw one not against us through the

main part of the channel

and depths here go from 30 meters in the

lagoon

to 45 or 50 meters in the past

the water depth on the ocean side has a

very steep drop off

and at half a mile out we were already

in 1800 meters

that's another pass rounded bye bye eye

look you were lovely

let's hope we have

yeah nice job getting through the pass

again joe yeah fairly clear

another couple of hundred meters and we

are through we can set the sails and

stop bobby watch it's got atolls to look

out for now

on the outside of the reef just passing

the

southwest tip the charts are a little

bit off here so we're

using our eyes to make sure we have good

clearance we're in the lee

of the atoll at moment so the sea

conditions

are rather nice

how are these alleged calm seas working

for you then darling

uh yeah that'd be all right if we

weren't completely on the nose

so we've uh we've got

one to two knots of drift that is just

pushing us

uh sort of towards roche which is the

island the next island down

so runs east to west and we're getting

pushed onto it so i'm going to point

quite high

yes we're having to point about 10

degrees higher than we normally would

have so that means that we cannot sail

we've got the head cell in at the moment

and

um both engines on and we're just

bashing

we're just hoping the wind will come

around these are the usual horrible

chocolate

and marshall islands no matter what the

weather you get horrible

short steep disease you do but um it

could be worse

it could have been blowing 25 knots for

the last four days which it hasn't so at

least the sea state

is somewhat common but it's still lumpy

but sailing in the marshalls

seven o'clock on saturday evening and

we're still

bash back fashion 14 knots of wind

and yeah we're basically just

flashing straight into the seas to try

and make up an angle

to get past watching at all which is a

starboard side

and hopefully after that which is in

about five hours we might be able to uh

turn the engines off

and sail we would very much like the

wind to come around a little bit more

to the north but we'll see how we go but

it's going to be a stunning sunset and

as you can see behind me

but it's a beautiful

mr birch is on just down shift

having his dinner it's a lovely sunset

look at the light coming into here how's

your chili darling

put your food in the fridge

all right

happy anniversary yeah best way it's 5

30 in the morning on sunday the 19th of

july and we have been married now

for 20 years 22 years

and we're celebrating by shaking

through the sea towards measuring quite

romantic actually

the moon has just come up this is very

small present moon

the sun is about to rise weird it's

coming up just before the sun yeah

and um yeah we're doing we're doing

seven knots now that's not a shadow

i'm not doing too badly i've had a

lovely sleep and i'm gonna go and have a

look this week

so it's the shift change so you're just

making yourself a coffee yeah

yeah it's not been too bad at night to

be honest the seas haven't been too big

not on wood for now and the wind has

been consistent it's been a little bit

more on the nose than we would have

liked but

there you go it our anniversary at the

scene darling yes

there's no schools oh yeah we haven't

had any schools tonight that's been the

first i think for any crossing that

we've done up here

a lot rather than judgment

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good morning just had the most wonderful

sunrise it's still happening

after the last hour or so it is super

chill out here we're just coming into

the lee

of malola atoll so the sea state's

coming down we've got about 12 knots of

breeze and it's glorious finally we've

got a bit of sailing that we're being

able to do there are

light fluffy clouds uh surrounding us

the wind has gone a little bit behind us

which wasn't forecast but it's

much appreciated and it's going to be a

glorious day

what's occurring in here multitasking

i'm watching a film

while uh sewing and making

uh or modifying a three dollar

magero flag here on our old courtesy

isn't it so this is from easy price and

it came with a bit of wood doweling

which i've taken out

and i've put a little bit of chalkboard

in there

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yeah the old one's somewhat shredded

isn't it i thought i'd put it in now so

the officials know that we've been here

for a while

and that is all that is left of the

first measure of courtesy flag yeah

there's some uh

marshall islands what's gonna say we how

long we've been here six months

seven months yeah that's just completely

not uv treated yes we should ride to the

shop that sold us that shouldn't we and

say this is how long our flags last

for we have currently got nine knots of

breeze

three and a half to four knots

i think adventure might be going on

soonish

well you have to love calm wind days

um they're rubbish for sailing but uh

they're very pleasant last time we were

in this little stretch of water it was

uh pretty scary uh

pretty horrific conditions so it's

marked

change today and it's been a very

pleasant day on the water

in the shelter of maloa lab and our

atolls

so we have just been chilling out to be

honest

catching up on a bit of sleep enjoying

our wedding anniversary

um just spending quiet time

and uh clear blue skies at the moment

absolutely glorious staying out here

having a wonderful time

so we've got one more evening

on the water with you in at about

four in the morning at the pass at

measure and we'll probably have uh a

mooring picked up after

six six thirty so just on first flight

here i'm gonna go and tighten down that

boom because

well it's 6 30 and we have got

seven knots of wind running an engine

we're doing about

4.95 knots and the sea

is flat calm it's a beautiful evening

and the sun is just about to um to set

behind me

so yeah we've had a quiet anniversary

but so we've spent the day on on the

ocean but it's been very pleasant the

sun's been out all day

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it's been there we've been reading and

snoozing

it's been very nice and deep box down

just having this news now i'm

until 9 o'clock i'm just going to enjoy

this beautiful sky behind me

oh hello oh she's talking about you

i said we'd have a very chill day yeah

squeezing and snoozing and

now we're popping it on at a stately

five knots

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yes it's very nice

it's very chill very relaxed very nice

offshorehead and kicked our butts

they're getting in in the next hour

we have promised ourselves that we will

learn to sail

mind you i have got a 48 foot camera

so yeah an extra couple of knots over

the course of the journey does that for

you doesn't it

good on the mice so they'll be enjoying

a nice glass of

they were wine 30 to 40 miles ahead of

us

in a 40-hour trip so there it's an extra

knot now basically

kicked our asses but we still

love them makes a huge difference over a

course of the it does yeah it certainly

does but yeah

we uh maybe if we weren't quite so heavy

i think we need to spring change that oh

we also need to do our anti-farm as well

we brought some antifa

in new zealand it's turned out to be

absolutely hasn't it in fact

there's none of it left on the bottom of

the boat is there none of it's left and

the

undercoat is basically uh abrasive

nasty not very streamlined temple

olympic

we think that we're doing at least half

an hour to a lot less

than we are expecting olympic you

promised us we would get three years

after this anti-fowl

it's lasted uh a year and two months

and it's on toast anybody what a

beautiful evening it is even if we are

listening to the sanctuary engines yes

it's very nice very pleasant a marked

difference to the last time

down here so we'll be clinging on for

dear life

easy laid back a big swell

it is the last night at sea we have 30

miles to go

but there is no clouds

this evening so the milky way is out in

all its glory i'm listening to a very

nice podcast

the engines are on seas are smooth joe

is having

a nice sleep we're hopefully gonna have

a couple of hours kept

each and then we'll both be up uh

to get in the past and head to an

anchorage

and uh yeah that'll be the end of the

end of our trip

it's been a bit more motoring than we

thought but

it's very nice and calm out here and

we'll take that even though we're

listening to the motors

we are in metro lagoon uh we used our

old track

and um there were a few lit markers as

well so it's fairly easy

to get in here it is um coming up

dorm so we think that we're going to go

straight

to the downtown moorings and um

do some laundry get some stuff catch up

with some sleep

and get online so yeah that is our plan

for today fairly easy to get in here the

wind is still very light

only seven knots or so so compared to

last time which was a white knuckle ride

this was uh fairly straightforward but

um because it's still dark i am keeping

close attention

on any items that may be in our way

between here and downtown so i'm gonna

get back

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