I kept busy all day mostly doing small things aboard, like cleaning the boat again, inflating the dinghy and with one mega-task…Lately my SSB radio was doing weird things and today it fell completely silent. I checked around on everything so Guppy became a huge mess from bow to stern and I still have not solved the problem. In the end I figured that there must be a failure somewhere inside the SSB radio electronics that I most probably cannot repair. The fuse inside the radio had blown, and the same happened with the replacement one right away… And so I spent all day finding things I was not searching for. But in turning everything upside down in the boat I found many other things that had gone missing for some time – and I learned everything there is to know about my SSB-radio. Well, it might come to be useful!.. After all that I decided not to cook dinner for myself, so with Henk from the Midget sailboat, I went to eat a big Burrito at a small restaurant overlooking the whole anchorage in Vava’u. I still have the radio problem but I try not to think too much about it for now – however, I am very sad that my black talking box that has come to mean so much to me has died. It was a sad day in the life of a young solo sailor.

Laura