CURRENT HEADING 276 DegT, SOG 7.0 Kts, BREEZE E 10 - 15
LAST 24 HOURS 151NM, 139MTG
Looks like today will be our last day at sea - celebrated this by drinks and
nibbles in the cockpit last night - only the second such event of the
passage. There is some debate as to whether we will do the New Years Eve
champagne thing tonight or wait until our arrival in port tomorrow morning.
The Nav system is showing arrival times between 0800 and 1100 at this
stage - which sounds a little early for champagne!! All dependant on the
wind of course which continues to hold slightly north of East and therefore
insist that we must tack down wind.
we are seeing more birds and more plastic bottles and other such crap in the
water - although one of the latter items may well have been a large turtle!
we are not exactly sure what is happening wiht the battery - the system
seems to be quietly working its way lower and lower - cant seem to get it to
charge much above 70% no matter how long we run the genset or engine. it
works its way down to about 60% ovwernight and takes about 6 hours to come
back up - so we have the blasted noise with us a large part of the day.
Big clean out of the freezer yesterday and S and I discovered our precious
lamb chops were very defrosted and very off! we consumed one pack early in
the piece and to tell you the truth they tasted a bit dodgy then. the rest
of the stuff seems fine althgouh we could no longer claim that it is frozen
solid. we seem to have the quantity about right - except that we hacve not
consumed any of our canned stores - so could probably have done with about
60% of what we took and then turned the freezer off. this would save a heap
of energy!
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