Another busy day at KEP for boating. By 10:00am we had had all four boats on the water. A pick up of hut workers at Sorling followed by checking the rat boxes on the Greene after a swap from jet boat to RIB. There were 4 rats so we only have 10 more to go from that peninsula. While a team of four of us did this Matt Kenney and Rob took the Dr and Kieron out to a large fishing reefer. The reefer had steamed here from 480 miles to the NE with a potential case of malaria aboard wanting our Dr to check the patient. The crew were Russian and Sam said their chart keeping with the crews vitals were better than some she has seen done by NHS nurses!

After this flurry of activity I ended up in bed for the rest of the afternoon as I have come down with the virus that is going around base. A general feeling of lethargy and a mild fever.

The wednesday night ‘movie’ was Thies and Kicki (who are back from a month in the North of the island) slideshow of the last 20 years of cruising all over the world. They have some stunning pictures and experiences to share. Unforutnately they will be leaving us after spending two years in South Georgia at the end of the month. It will be quite a loss to the KEP residents when they leave us.

Wanderer III was made famous by Eric & Susan Hiscock during two cicumnavigations in the 1950’s. In their book, ‘Around the World in Wanderer III’ the couple set out from Yarmouth, England(1952) and circle the globe by way of the West Indies, the Panama Canal, Tahiti, Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand,Australia, South Africa, the Ascension Islands and the Azores, returning home three years later. Wanderer III has completed five circumnavigations and is sailed by Thies and Kicki Matzen. The designer was Jack Giles and she was built by William King in 1952. The keel and deadwood are elm, the stem, sternpost, frames, carlines and deckbeams are English oak. Iroko planking with cedar decks and a mahogany interior. She is sailed everywhere as the engine is hard pushed to do much pulling 7.2 tons and they only carry 20l of fuel. Her LOA is 30 feet with a beam of 8 foot 5 inches.