Yup - Overnight'r again to Oa' Huka. I like hand steering, but it gets tiresome after a while and especially at night. Not sure if it was the way of the winds, but we arrived to the anchorage and it was "untenable" (good word) and overall looking decidedly grim. We would have been better off laying up in the middle of the ocean. Got the call to secure anchor and we were going onwards another 10 hours to Nuku Hiva. Turning a 13 hour into a 23 hour sail is tough under any circumstances and it took a bit to change the mindset (for me) and head off again at 6:00am. Right decision all around from even my feeble sailing perspective. Nuku HIva is the capital of the Marquesas with a nice holding anchorage and lots to see and do so it is not like I am being punished or anything. Another tropical rainstorm to greet us to the island (just like every single island that we have made landfall on so far). Snuh.
Time to get some repairs and some fresh food.
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