Busy day on Pikorua in KK, Borneo

 We have now been here for 4 days and we have had a reasonable amount of work carried out on the boat.

The exterior has been cleaned of all the salt we got from the trip over from Hong Kong and the black soot/crap that was dumped by the rain while the boat was sitting in the Typhoon shelter in in HK.
The hull is being cleaned by divers as I type. When entering either Australia or NZ they are very particular about any growth on the hulls as it has the potential to bring unwanted hitch hikers into their waters so it is alway best to have the hulls clean in the last port before you arrive. So we are having that done and getting a statement from the dive company.

The fuel form the after tanks are also being emptied today so the tanks can be cleaned. Is is due to the dirty fuel we experienced on passage after transferring fuel from forward tanks to main aft tanks. I was going to have all 4 cleaned but the aft tanks are a bit more difficult to access.

We had a small hydraulic leak in the bow thruster through a seal so that is being replaced today. This is not a passage stopper but good to get fixed sooner rather than later.

We had a very strange issue with the navigation screen on passage. A very bright window would pop up a lot and this meant you couldn’t see the radar screen and at night time you lost your night vision. I have tried to replicate it while here in KK and have been running the system exactly the same as we did but the good news it has not done it again in more than 48hrs. The bad news it has not done it in the more than 48hrs! I think it was the on/off button so was advised to push it in hard so did that now it’s all working fine. Fingers crossed!

The fuel polishing system stopped working. Once I took it apart I realised it was my stupid mistake! When I changed the filter after we had all the crud coming through in the fuel I didn’t put enough diesel back into the filter compartment so it wouldn’t prime. Poured a bit of fuel into it, close the lid, turned it on and would you believe it worked perfectly. Stupid boy!!

Lots of work going on today

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The IBC tank in this picture is where the fuel in our tanks will be pumped into

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