Thursday 13 June Fixing

A small armada of boats left Cairns this morning on the continuing journey north. We still have to finish our list of boat projects. We're certainly in the finishing straight now. There was a third day of whizzing between suppliers on our bikes. We commented that our bikes, bought second hand in Grenada three years ago are one of the best and most useful toys we have on board. We use them more than we use our dive kit. If we'd had to walk the miles we've cycled in the last three days we'd still be on the way to somewhere. David collected the new coaxial cable he needed to finish the improvement on the AIS. The job is now completed. The broken gas strut on the engine room door (faulty for over a year) has been replaced with a new one. The generator switches off on first push rather than 30^th and the food stores are looking good. It's easy to take stores on board here in Cairns where the supermarket is only 5 minutes (with trolleys available to borrow) from the marina than Darwin where we understand the dinghy dock is a 40 minute walk from town centre. When I shopped in Panama before crossing the Pacific we provisioned for 6 months. From here we have a month to get around to Darwin and then three months until we arrive in Singapore. With David's ability to catch fish we won't starve.