Nuku Hiva, 6-13-2017--To-do jobs

Our apologies in advance, as today's post will probably not be one of our more engaging.  The day has mostly been spent crossing jobs off the to-do list.

Last night brought gusty winds and this morning dawned uncharacteristically gray, drizzly and cool.
We were so glad to have gotten the roll reducers deployed before nightfall.  They made a huge difference in comfort last night. Pearl slept without even putting up her lee cloths.  Without the roll reducers, she would have been dumped onto the cabin floor in short order.  In case it's of interest, here's a link to a photo:

http://www.omick.net/adventure/sailing/anchoring/Anchoring.html

Fortunately, by mid-morning the weather turn sunny and calm so

we got busy crossing off jobs.  First was cleaning the anchor line.  During the past 5 weeks the beginning of an impressive coral reef had begin to grow on it.  An hours worth of scraping with a butter knife removed all manner of barnacles and unidentifiable growth.

That was followed by scrubbing a slimy and unsightly growth off the sides of the hull.  

We also finally got Minnie properly seated on the bulkhead instead of being ignominiously stuffed in the net bag above Pearl's bunk.

We won't bore you with the rest of the items crossed off, but we were pleased with the progress.

An email came in today from a young Dutch fellow we met several weeks ago.  He's crewing on boats and making videos along the way.  He interviewed us and took a short video of us pulling up the anchor and rowing out of the anchorage on Ua Pou.  We haven't seen it yet due to the slow internet here, so it's with some trepidation that we're sharing the link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jGO8Z29H2c&feature=youtu.be

Minnie the mascot finally gets a proper seat on the cabin bulkhead.

Looking over the side of the boat, one of the roll reducers can be dimly seen in the water. the other one is on the opposite side of the boat.