Indian Ocean - Day 8
Anastasia
Phil May and Andrea Twigg
Tue 9 Oct 2012 10:18
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16:51.6S 070:08.1E 1600 miles covered, 750
miles to go
The wind has moderated, but fortunately there is a
good (1 - 2 knot) current behind us so we are still making good progress towards
Mauritius. We now need to average 7.8 knots to get there for Andrea's
birthday.
I am radio net controller today. It is a
challenge working out what people are saying now we are several hundred miles
apart and the voices are increasingly obscured by background noise. We are
using a 6 megahertz band, which should be OK to transmit up to 600 miles, but
the issue seems to be the limited power of some of the boat's radio
transmitters. Still, using a system of relays between boats with good
radios we can still contact everybody. This morning I had to use Zoe,
Dreamcatcher, and Gunvor to reach all sections of the fleet. Zoe
has a great radio. We can usually communicate fine with them and yet we
are at opposite ends of the fleet, over 400 miles apart.
Andrea made pizza dough in the breadmaker
today, so we had pizza and coleslaw for lunch.
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