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Timshel - Vanuatu to Australia Day 7



More ships going past. Just because there is a shipping lane marked on the charts doesn't mean the ships are in it! Contrary winds today (Chris says it is because of high pressure) and died away mid-morning so ended up motoring for a couple of hours. Luckily it came back and able to set sail again particularly trying for us as electronic autopilot doesn't work. Tried to set up old Autohelm 1000 tiller pilot to drive Hydrovane, but a critical piece came detached (a failure of the bonding) and fell into the ocean so that was that. Cloudy day , but cleared by evening, wonderful stars and a moon again (waxing crescent) at least for the first few hours. Some of the boats have already finished, we are still plodding on. After the finish line theres still the Hydrographers passage through the reef to negotiate - another days sail.

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