Back in Airlie Beach

Well, who would have thought it?!! We're back in Airlie to get a watermaker HP hose fixed and everything is all go for the morrow. We've identified the problem and the local Enzed Hose owner has been on board. He will be back tomorrow with the necessary bits and then we'll be back in business. Hopefully this is the last of the Open Ocean Watermakers, Opua shoddy workmanship to be repaired. Whenever we get a chance we tell all and sundry to have nothing to do with them and the message is being reinforced by people who have worked on the system here in Australia. They deserve to be run out of town for the lies and deceit that we have been subjected to. We've replaced the old brass HP pump which had virtually disintegrated and now we are replacing some brass pipe fittings as well as the burst hose which could well have sunk us the other day had we not seen the sudden loss of water pressure in the watermaker system. Brass and HP salt water are bad bedfellows. And Open Ocean had the absolute cheek to suggest that our problem was electrolysis.
We're still at Airlie but will be making a concerted effort to get to Cairns in good time and will then make a decision as to whether we feel we can make Darwin by the deadline. Crooks like Open Ocean certainly don't help in these endeavours.
Foe anyone contemplating installing a watermaker - DON'T DEAL WITH OPEN OCEAN OF OPUA - RUN A MILE!!! CONTACT US (TIARE TAPORO III) FOR CHAPTER AND VERSE. THESE PEOPLE ARE CROOKS LIARS AND CHARLATANS.
Our email addresses are 1) tiare_taporo@yahoo.co.nz or 2) ZMQ5985@sailmail.com
We are hoping to sail from here in a couple of days.
Keep watching this space............
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