Jocara Newsletter
July 12, 2005

The engine part arrived, it fitted, and Chilly helped us bolt all the 
little pieces (and some not so little) back together again.  The engine 
now runs and even works the propeller.  Miracles!  The carpets will never 
be the same, but hey! we never liked pink anyway.  Jocara cleared out on 
10 July with the intention of leaving next morning.  That's when it 
decided to dump squalls on us all night and half the next day.  At least 
it filled the fresh water tanks.  Undeterred, we left Gan in unsettled 
weather in the late afternoon of 11 July and motored out the pass headed 
for Phuket, maybe by way of a little island called 'Pulau Wei' on the 
northern tip of Sumatra.  So far we've had rain, 0-20 knots of wind (hard 
to say since the wind instrument no longer works), lightning and bumpy 
swells.  Up all night dodging squalls with everyone feeling a little 
tender.  Even Cannelle looks sick.  Jocara has just seen her first dawn at 
sea for a while; grey, rainy but plugging along east at 3-4 knots in a 
lumpy sea and a light breeze from the NE, an unexpected direction.  Just 
1500 n.m. to go, but who's counting at this early stage?  Jocara was to be 
found at 0 deg. 18.5'S, 73 deg. 59.7'E steering 080T at dawn this morning.

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