Honeymoon Beach -

Finally the rudder is complete, and re-installed. About 5 different boats all came and helped at different stages of the removal, drop off, pick-up, and re-installation. The re-construction was done by Shannon and me, and is no where near Vision or Loyal standards, but is a typical "quality" Courage operation. The shaft still has some curves in it, and the cracks are only about as big as my fingernail.  I am figuring that it should be strong enough to last until our return to America sometime late next year.  And the prop that we had straightened is back on and hardly wobbles at all - - (At east not at the low RPM's.).  It is even better than it was after we hit the log.

We are now at Honeymoon beach. This is the same place we stayed 11 years ago on our Honeymoon!! There is a beautiful beach, and the water is deep so we can anchor pretty close to the shore.  We just left a super fantastic place that our friends on Alba told us about. 

There is a deaf/mute guy there who is wonderful and loves sharing his beautiful motu with everyone. We went for a ride on the motorcycle all around the island, and he showed me all the great secret beaches that I should explore. The people that we meet are one of the best parts of the traveling, even when you speak with just your hands and drawing pictures!

Courage