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Misto - Days 136-137: May 22-23 Pizza Kitchen Open on Suwarrow!



I think that this must be a first for Suwarrow. Lars, from Sandvita, seeing the primitive, wood fired bread oven that exists for the caretaker on Suwarrow, decided that it could be a great pizza oven. After several hours of stoking it with wood, he declared the Pizza Kitchen open and we all assembled with the makings of pizza. It was an incredibly fun afternoon and evening with very creative that tasted wonderful. Our thank to Lars for all the hard work that he put in to make this an amazing party.

The next day, we decided to tackle a maintenance job, as the port side winch had started squeaking painfully when under load, so we took it apart and found a paper label in the cogs. Clearly this had never been removed when the winch was first installed and it was now causing a problem. With that reassembled we took another look at the weather and decided to depart in the afternoon for Nuie. A number of other boats had left that morning and we had planned to leave the next day, but felt that we had some chance of minimizing our time in light winds by departing sooner. The depression over Niue should have moved off by the time we arrive giving better conditions in the mooring field there.

Weighing the anchor was interesting as it had snaked around three or four coral heads as we had swung at anchor in the variable wind. However, we managed to weave our way around the coral and bring the anchor up without too many issues. Some of the boats had experienced far more problems earlier in the day. We are now on our way to Niue and hope to arrive late on Saturday.
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At 5/20/2017 11:34 PM (utc) our position was 13°18.08'S 162°53.10'W


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