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| Hooking our chain to the mooring |
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| Interlude in the Graveyard |
At Vuda Point Marina, you have 3 choices for mooring your boat: in the water, on the hardstands, or in the pits (aka The Graveyard).
We chose the water option – mainly so we don’t have to redo Moondance’s bottom next year.
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| Lots of boats in the marina |
So, Doug has been busy securing our boat based on the Marina’s and our boat buddies suggestions.
The Marina is a big man-made circular hole (swimming pool), with a an underwater mooring.
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| Pretty fancy fenders - not! |
You remove the anchor and then the Marina guys pull your anchor chain out to the underwater mooring (no idea what it looks like).
If a cyclone is coming, all the anchor chains are pulled tight to secure the boats.
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| Exploring Latouka |
Then, we tied lots of fenders, plus tires (used of course) to the Moondance’s hull.
The tires are secured by lines that run underneath our hull. This keeps the tires from blowing up in high winds – guess this was an issue last year during Cyclone Evan.
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| Conform? |
And the last step, securing chains and line to the steel “deadmen” on the grass behind us.
Whew - a lot of work for something we hope never happens!
Plus, organizing a caretaker. There is an approved list, so that helps, but is a little strange.
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| Beautiful carving |
Along with Cheryl and Karen (s/v Interlude) we taxi’d over to Namaka for the Fiji Chef’s competition.
It was very interesting and we learned a lot. Unfortunately, they wouldn't let us do any tasting – rats!
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| School? |
Flying to the USA on Wednesday. So excited!!!
PS: We loved Namaka. It is a small town, but has a great fruit and veggie market and 4 big stores for provisioning. Unfortunately, the taxi rides are a bit spendy!
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