THERE'S BITS EVERYWHERE!!!

We have onboard three men who speak Spanish but little English and three English people who speak little Spanish but all seems to be going well, I suspect due to the relationship that we have made with our main mechanic over the past couple of weeks. All parts are now present and correct and with any luck this will be my final blog entry for some time given that the engine and gearbox will run fine in the next few hours. The bad news is that we are now approximately three weeks behind the front of the fleet and we will be forced to miss out the Marquases and point at Tahiti instead to make up lost time and to meet the boss. It has been a big drama that at times seemed never ending and although moral has taken a bit of a battering at times everyone has stayed friends with no real falling outs. This of course has been aided by the sheer amount of cake that Bryony made of the many bananas that we had for the crossing but had ripened too soon. Onwards to Tahiti