Today is an easy day. We’re just sitting on our mooring. Well, sort of. The supply ship came in this morning at 0600. Orcinius, The Rose and we were on the “first three” moorings and the three of us were asked to move off to make room for the ship. It’s about 500 feet long and carries containers so it’s pretty sizable. It was fun having a morning coffee and watching him set an anchor and a stern line to the wharf (a good two hundred meters or more) in order stabilize to offload containers.

We were pretty close and were asked to move to help make room for him to maneuver, so we slipped our moorings and moved about 1/4 mile down the line to the last three moorings and reset. Just as well as the supply ship was very noisy. All the loading and unloading of containers makes quite a racket.

Tomorrow we’re thinking of leaving for Tonga, weather permitting. It’s been “spitting” all day today and if tomorrow looks the same, we’ll probably stay another day for better weather. The only problem (and it’s a judgement call) is that once the “good” weather kicks in, the wind drops. The “judgement:” part is that leaving on Sunday will have substantial wind and big seas-approaching 4 meters-but Monday through Wed then has lower seas and lighter winds. 2.5 meters and 12 knots respectively. We’ll see.

That’s it for today from Nuie.