Bay of Islands to Namuka

Cami De Conto

This was luckily a calm overnight trip that we were sailing beam reach with little wind in flat seas. I said it was a lucky condition because Jurri ended up sailing this entire trip solo. Juliette started with fever as soon as we left the reef of Vanua Balevu and it got really high during the night. She just wanted to be in my arms and breastfeeding the whole time. Her fever got up to 39degC!! I was in contact with her paediatrician and she was helping me with making decisions. The thing is, we were sailing into a veeeeery remote area. No airport, no hospital, no doctors.. just coconuts, palm trees and pristine beaches 😅 By the time we were about to enter the red of Namuka, our engine shut off 🥴 the racional was good, we thought it could only be fuel if it just died like that. So the first thing we checked was the feeding line and we immediately saw it was chafing against the engine and it had a little hole on it. We put that welding tape around it and it worked. We never had a problem assessed and resolved in such short time. 5min later we had the engine on again and we could safely proceed inside the reef. Juliette had her morning nap and woke up without fever from the nap 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 it was over! Now we could enjoy Namuka!