Almost to Mangareva!

MFT: Puffy cheetos
LFP: Never ending squalls

Last day sailing before we make land again. We’d made great time sailing/motoring during the evening and morning so we decided to slow down a bit and wait out some of the squalls. Sadly, my shoes smelt even worse post scrubbing and bleach wash because they never really dried out due to all the squalls.

We can’t make any new fresh water while in port because all the biology and things in the water clogs up our filters. Because of this, we tend to be on stiff water rationing while on shore, so laundry is not allowed. However, I was running out of clean clothes so even though it was raining continuously I actually did laundry. I’m lucky in that if no one is sleeping in the nearby crew cabin, I can borrow their large ceiling fan and point it towards my bunk. This means that I have a somewhat reasonable method for drying clothing that’s hung over my bunk. Kelsey and Melissa were very nice in letting me use their fan for a couple of hours so most of my laundry dried!

I’ve discovered that lavender scented Dr. Bronner’s Soap is a miraculous method for washing clothing. I also use the concentrated biosuds that you use while camping, but having a bit of nice smell for your clothing is super important because things tend to SMELL very quickly. So I hoard my nice soap (it’s multi use as body wash, shampoo, soap, ect.) for laundry. My clothes have a faint whiff of lavender (at least for the first day post cleaning). After a day or so they go back to less appetizing smells!


Anyways, it was a pretty uneventful day, for me at least. The students had their lab practical during class. Basically there were 20 questions posted around the deck that they had to answer. It was fun watching them but I declined officially participating in the exam. I know that I could answer most of it (at least all the questions I saw) but wanted to take a quick nap instead during that hour. They were all pretty relieved post exam and everyone was a lot less stressed (they had all be studying non-stop for the week) by dinner. Tomorrow we should be finally sailing into our new port!

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