18th June, Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia

A busy day today doing chores. We headed into the marina early to do 2 loads of washing. Brought them back to the boat to peg them out but had to borrow some pegs from Maya 3 as we ran out!! We were trying to get in touch with organizers of the Tahiti to Moorea rally leaving on Sat to see if we could get a place so Jonny quickly checked the e mails to see if we had a response – as he was doing this the hard drive started making a clicking noise and then stopped working!! Luckily the drive out of our external hard drive will fit the laptop and we can buy a replacement external hard drive at Carre Four. Our next job was a trip to Carre Four to do abit of provisioning to top up our Panama supplies and buy a new external hard drive. All the rumours about French Polynesia are true – it is very expensive!! After unpacking the shopping and lunch the jobs continued with Jonny taking are stack pack cover to Calysta to see if his sewing machine can cope with the small repair needed and also to fix our slightly battered looking red ensign - the red ensign repairs was fine but unfortunately the stack pack was too thick so Jonny had to hand sew the repair. Whilst he was doing this I took our last load of washing ashore, brought it back and pegged it out, did the washing up and de weeviled some pasta!! As we were finishing our chores Nemesis came over to drop us off some of the Wahoo they had caught on the way to Papeete.
We had been invited over to Blaze 2 for sun down drinks which was great. We didn't end up leaving until 10.30 after having a great night. Andy had invited us over to Calysta for tea – by this time I didn't want to eat but Jonny had a lovely tea!!