Happy trade wind Sailing :O)
Cat-man-do
Wed 28 Nov 2007 11:56
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Well, we're well on our way, though with probably
another two weeks or so to go. In the company of several other yachts yesterday,
and one or two overnight but today sees us alone out here and no one else in
sight. Strangely we had a close encounter with a yacht last night with him
passing just half a mile in front of us. You wouldn't believe it, thousands of
miles of open ocean and you're in danger of hitting another boat in the middle
of the night. Howard's getting his head around taking sun and star readings with
the sextant and getting positions correct to within 5 miles or so. The rest of
us are waiting till he's got confident at it, then going to have a go. Our only
issue on board is power, as in electrical and we seem to go through it
extraordinarily quickly where we've now turned all the chart plotters (our
mapping systems) off and just heading in the general right direction. It seems
to be working fine so far and saving us a bit of "juice" into the
bargain.
Sun's shining and all's well with the
world.
To be continued
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