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Misto - Day 52-53: Misto comes 3rd on leg 3!



The prize-giving on February 27 revealed that Laura Dawn came first, Hanna second and Misto third. This was quite a surprise for us due to the motoring that we had to do on the last leg. Chuck and Sharon had now departed and so were not there to bask in the glory of this award, which they contributed to. Dinner at the Il Giardino restaurant was a festive and enjoyable affair.

Carl was now on board and the first order of the day on February 28 was provisioning at the local market. We saw most of the boats represented there as we all tried to decide how much fresh produce we needed for a 3+ week trip and balance that with where we were going to store it all. Back at the boat a number of preparatory jobs proceeded - checking the engines, stowing gear and diving to clean the bottom of the boat which was sprouting all sorts of vegetation in the nutrient-rich Galapagos waters. We completed the installation of a car battery to act as the starter battery and the 6-battery house bank seems to be performing well. Howard also squeezed 5 gallons of diesel into the generator tank and ran ashore to fill one last jerry can with more diesel.

We decided to spend the last night ashore and met up with Ken and Eileen from Aurora for dinner.
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At 2/19/2017 1:08 PM (utc) our position was 00°55.84'S 090°07.04'W




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