Left: Day 5, replacing stays, that is 12 m, Philemon is on the third floor level of a building, right: steel wire eye terminals out of stock in most Dutch shops, miraculously found by Cas and taken to Uganda

After breaking a stay we had to replace all four of them, a job reserved for Banda, not exactly an operation to long for doing on the waves on the open lake. Mounting eye terminals on steel wire is a finicky job.
You should reserve a day for it, and feel satisfied when you finish in three hours. If you do it, like us, being quite late for your guest's plane your nerves are a bad company. Cas, relaxed, sitting on the steering deck, soothed our nerves with his gentle dark voice: positive remarks radiating confidence and optimism. We complimented him for it and asked how he managed to keep this sympathetic attitude under stress of having to catch his plane. "This morning, I had a really excellent shit", he explained, "and moreover I kept the bailing pumps [while in operation, their tubes are in the toilet] on, I can recommend it!".
We had 50 km to go to Entebbe Airport and in the past 4 days did, due to rain, bad wind, wrong wind lack of wind, tearing the sail, a sinking canoe, a staggering 60 km in total! Entebbe, we tell everybody, is 3 or 4 days. If this goes on it might be nine this time!