9 April 2011 16 days at sea

The EJ's Voyage
Mike Everton-Jones
Sat 9 Apr 2011 21:36
We saw life on the ocean! Alain and Catherine of PULSION appeared on the horizon last night and finally overtook us this morning. We had a long chat on VHF which was fun. They are doing well. Being a much lighter boat they are faster than us in these winds. They will be able to tell us all about anchoring at HIVA OA since they will arrive before us. Great! Attached a photo with them taken in Galapagos the day before we left.
 
16 to 20kts of wind all night. It has dropped a little today to 16kts but we are still sailing along nicely at 6.5kts. Yankee is goose winged on port, staysail and main on starboard. The sea has calmed down a bit too so it is quite comfortable now.
 
Beautiful day. Hot. The boys are having another at fishing with homemade lures.
 
Towing generator broke, a piece (don't ask me to explain which one!) got totally worn out. Mike is in the middle of repairing it now. We struggle a bit to get our batteries recharged. Not too sure yet what the problem is. But we are ok, It just mean that we have to turn the generator on for much longer than usual. We have plenty of diesel so it is not a huge problem.
 
All good onboard
 
A demain
M+C
 
 
 
 

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