Vuda Marina: Happy Fiji Day
Thurs Oct 09 2025 2350 UTC, 17 41.687s 177 21.857e, Log: 9134
All is well. Fiji celebrates its independence from Britain today. We are once again med tied in Vuda Marina’s outer basin. We are wedged in between two beautiful performance cats: Kinetc, a Kinetic KC62, and Slim, a Gunboat 66. Both have pro crews aboard looking after them. We’re sleeping with the big dogs—or cats I guess.
We motor sailed over from Musket Cove this morning in a light northeasterly. The crew from Subsurface dive shop came by after work last night to scrub our bottom. I video’d it this morning before we left. NZ bio security wants evidence we have a clean hull and that we left Fiji’s biofouling behind in Fiji.
We had a farewell dinner last night at the Lomani Resort with the crews of Fundango, Chaos, and Warrior. We handed off our mooring to our friends aboard the Catana 47, Hudson. Miss you guys.
We will be here in Vuda until it’s time to depart for New Zealand. For now we have freshwater from a hose, shore power, and the air conditioners are humming away.
