Location 16° 32S, 151° 45W
Tuesday, 09.04.2007

The Schooner Maggie B has returned to a lovely spot off of Hotel Bora Bora at 16° 32S, 151° 45W. Taha’a was a marvelous break. Our friend Erwin Christian took some smashing photos of the Maggie B outward bound from Bora Bora. They are up on the web now. Erwin and I are making one of them into a post card that will eventually be sold in all the shops in Bora Bora!

Communication from the Maggie B will be erratic for a while. A few nights ago I fell in the water returning to the Maggie B, unfortunately carrying a briefcase with the primary computer, camera and cell phone. None swam well. Even though the briefcase was in the water for only a few seconds, all were ruined. In 2000 departures and rrivals on the Maggie B, the first time I fell in the water, I was carrying the good stuff. All ship’s papers, passports, etc. as well.

After passing up the briefcase, I swam around to the ladder to get on the boat, loosing my wallet in the process. A bad night.

Fortunately, the next day at first light, when I went looking for the wallet, there it was 50 meters behind the boat, in only 30 feet of water. At least I didn’t have the hassle of new credit cards and license.

New phone was easy and the SIM card works fine. The computer was backed up and the hard drive seems fine. The camera’s SIM chip also seems fine. And we have the #2 computer, all
paralleled, right? Wrong. The #2’s power connection failed
and the power supply chip shorted out the first morning it
was called on. But I’ve saved its hard drive and will
download everything, just as soon as I can get a new
computer, which may be in a few days. There is a very
helpful team of computer wizards on the island, so we are
well supported.

More soon.

All is well.