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Timshel - Darwin to Lombok Day 4



Motored for the rest of the night; stopped engine to refuel in the morning. 3 x 20L cans put in, but when checking engine found (sea) water in the engine billge - think its coming from the water pump shaft. We have a spare pump, but found when taking it apart that we need to cut a notch in the woodwork to get it out. So put it back together and will monitor closely; at the moment the engine cooling is OK. Of course while we were drifting with all the engine covers off and tools and spares all over the place down below looked at the plotter and saw on AIS (also out the window) a huge Cruise ship bearing down on us - out of all the ocean she is heading right for us! But the Majestic Princess responded to our VHF call and the watch officer kindly agreed to keep at least 1 nm clear of us. Couple of hours later we got wind and able to sail close hauled with all white sails (main, yankee and staysail) at a respectable speed for the rest of the day. The rest of the fleet got wind at the same time, several of them talking about flying their Code Zero, carbon sails and other such exotica that we don't have. its great to be sailing anyway,

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