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This is what a well organized cockpit looks like. So many sail changes every day keep me really busy. This for sure is not the barefoot route.

The continuous rain has stopped. Here you see me checking out those nasty squalls. Hopefully, they leave me in peace over night. Finally, the seasickness is over. Now I can eat and drink. You cannot imagine how much I hate these first two or three days of a passage with a rough sea state.

Will this rain ever stop? Upwind sailing with just the jib. So I can sail through the squalls. I am still seasick. Today, I had an apple, my first food in 48 h. I envy all of you who csn sit on the sofa and enjoy life. This here is no fun, believe me.

This is a recent photo when Easy was splashed with new antifouling. This is a test of my internet upload of photos via the starlink connection.

This is an old photo I took when I was preparing Easy for the arrival of Merle and Kirsten last November. This upload is just to test the Iridium-connection for my next leg to Nouvelle Caledonie.

Impressive, how different clouds can look in different parts of the world. Never have I seen clouds like these before. This front was followed by a period of no wind, and then a shift of about 100° counterclockwise. This was a passing low east of me. Just all the other way around than back home. And the low wind does not fit the picture.

After over a week the sun finally shows up. She hardly has any effect on the cabin temperature. 19° C today.

In Tonga I bought a bunch of green bananas. Some of them forgot their biological program. Instead of turning into palatable yellow fruit they seem to skip this important phase and go directly from green to black (rotten). Too late now, they will have to go swimming in the Pacific. Only three days left, and I am not allowed to bring fruit into New Zealand. Seems to be a well protected fruit market. Since Panama I have been buying (for rediculous money) apples from New Zealand for my breakfast, but I am not allowed to bring one single piece of fruit into New Zealand. Sailing is boring, today. Only the low flying plane from the New Zealand Airforce brought some variation. They asked me all details about me, the ship and my voyage and wished me a pleasant sail. Thank you. If you wonder, the round fruit is a mango from Tonga, a present from Julia and Götz from Tribalance. Delicious. Thank you.

After 3 years in the tropics I have to get used to grey days and cool temperatures. It is 20°C outside. Brrrrr.