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Friday 30th July This morning the water was like glass. A contrast to what was coming. After breakfast Andrew said “we need to set off back now”. Even though there was no wind, we set off motoring across the atoll to the entrance. By the time we had reach the entrance the wind had built to 15knots. It was a good sail with the wind on our beam reaching 22knots. We got back to Airlie by dusk.
Saturday 31st July On the sail back we had noticed the holding tank for the toilet wasn’t emptying properly. So that’s today’s job. We, thats the royal we (Andrew) removed the macerator pump from the holding tank outlet and removed the obstruction, washed out the pump and cleaned out the scaley build up in the pipes. He reassembled the system and cleaned up the effluent that had poured out of the pipes and tank.
Where were the girls you ask? They had gone ashore to use the toilets. A bucket wasnt good enough. They had returned while Andrew was still working in the shit. So they stayed out on deck.
After the repair and clean up all the hatches were opened wide dispersing the odour. Lydia and Sue armed with disinfectant wiped everything down.
This afternoon we went ashore and had a bbq with the crew from Serenade and two other boats.