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Date: 27 Nov 2006 12:34:55

Title: ARC 2006, Day one

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Stardate Nov 28, 2006: We have survived our first night at sea, but appear to have been left way behind by everyone else. Yesterday we were in the middle of 225 yachts, today the horizon is clear all around us. There is not so much wind as we had hoped, but it is in the right direction, and that is good! No interesting stories so far, just quite hard work, reefing and unfeefing the sails, and changing the spinnaker pole from one side to the other: I had not anticipated doing this very often, but the winds south of the Canaries take more than 100 miles to settle into a pattern. Our towed generator is working very well, but I hope that this does not put the kiss of death on it!!

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2013
- May 2013
  - Sat 18 May
    - Cabedelo
  - Fri 17 May
    - Whinge for the day!
  - Thu 16 May
    - Battleships
  - Wed 15 May
    - Pepys: streets of Fleck
  - Tue 14 May
    - I am hydrovane
  - Mon 13 May
    - Yeasterday
  - Sun 12 May
    - Poetry time
  - Sat 11 May
    - Status Quo
  - Fri 10 May
    - All swell
  - Thu 09 May
    - Steady (fairly) as she goes.
  - Wed 08 May
    - Missing Ascension Day
  - Sun 05 May
    - Ascension Island
  - Sat 04 May
    - Is the Pope a Catholic?
  - Fri 03 May
    - Steady as she goes.
  - Thu 02 May
    - From me to you
  - Wed 01 May
    - 3am. No lessons from history!
- Apr 2013
  - Tue 30 Apr
    - No news is good news!
  - Mon 29 Apr
    - Three weeks later....
  - Mon 08 Apr
    - Circumnavigator?
  - Sun 07 Apr
    - Groundhog days
  - Fri 05 Apr
    - Academic cooking
  - Mon 01 Apr
    - Masthead revisited
- Mar 2013
  - Fri 29 Mar
    - Mast still upright
  - Wed 27 Mar
    - Life of Pi, sans tiger.
  - Mon 25 Mar
    - new problem list
  - Sun 24 Mar
    - Just the usual start of trip collisions
2012
- Dec 2012
  - Sun 09 Dec
    - When the curtain comes down it's not quite over.
  - Sat 08 Dec
    - The Indian Ocean, Cape Aghulas, The Atlantic Ocean, The Cape of Good Hope: just another day at the office.
  - Fri 07 Dec
    - Cape Agulhas: turn left for Antarctica, turn right for home. No brainer, for a change!
  - Thu 06 Dec
    - Grinding out the miles
  - Wed 05 Dec
    - Zebra sails in the East Cape easterlies
  - Sat 01 Dec
    - Port Elizabeth
- Nov 2012
  - Thu 29 Nov
    - More half full than half empty!
  - Wed 28 Nov
    - Chasing the current, dodging the wind.
  - Sun 25 Nov
    - Ocean frying pan, harbour fire!
  - Fri 23 Nov
    - Safe arrival, Durban.
  - Thu 22 Nov
    - Beeline to Durban, but wish we had wings!
  - Tue 20 Nov
    - Overdrive please!
  - Mon 19 Nov
    - Bit by bit.
  - Sun 18 Nov
    - Todays date and position!
    - Donner und Blitzen!
  - Sat 17 Nov
    - Some like it hot
  - Fri 16 Nov
    - Fresh bread and goosewings
  - Thu 15 Nov
    - Notes from the Nostromo
  - Wed 14 Nov
    - Wind and sun, but very humid.
  - Tue 13 Nov
    - Out of the bucket
  - Mon 12 Nov
    - A little smoother now!
  - Sun 11 Nov
    - If only it was flat
- Jul 2012
  - Mon 09 Jul
    - Reunion: postscript
- Jun 2012
  - Sat 30 Jun
    - Reunion: end of term time!
  - Wed 20 Jun
    - Port Louis
  - Sun 17 Jun
    - Position info only
    - In Mauritius
  - Wed 13 Jun
    - Au revoir, Rodrigues
  - Thu 07 Jun
    - Yes!
  - Tue 05 Jun
    - Answers and questions over the Marie Celeste Fracture Zone.
  - Sun 03 Jun
    - Difficult connection
  - Sat 02 Jun
    - Continues to work hard, and achieve good results.
- May 2012
  - Thu 31 May
    - Getting in the zone
  - Tue 29 May
    - Sailing in the Goldilocks zone: not!
  - Mon 28 May
    - Still waiting for weather!
  - Sun 27 May
    - Slow down, weather ahead!
  - Fri 25 May
    - Rattling along.
  - Wed 23 May
    - On the road again.
  - Sat 19 May
    - Cocos Keeling: it's really nice.
  - Thu 17 May
    - Closing Cocos
  - Mon 14 May
    - Progress
  - Sat 12 May
    - Back on the edge of the Ocean
  - Fri 11 May
    - Jakarta
  - Mon 07 May
    - Post-call.
  - Sun 06 May
    - Java Sea
  - Fri 04 May
    - Half full, half empty?
- Apr 2012
  - Mon 30 Apr
    - Nongsa Point Marina, take three.
2011
- May 2011
  - Tue 10 May
    - Through the Sunda Strait
  - Mon 09 May
    - Jakarta
    - Thousand Islands
  - Mon 02 May
    - Ups and Downs.
- Apr 2011
  - Sat 30 Apr
    - Back across the line
  - Tue 26 Apr
    - Sebana Cove
  - Tue 12 Apr
    - Ouch!
  - Tue 05 Apr
    - Pangkor to Danga Bay
- Mar 2011
  - Wed 30 Mar
    - Pangkor by daylight
  - Mon 28 Mar
    - Pulau Paya: racing for buoys.
  - Wed 23 Mar
    - Sitting on the dock of the bay, waiting for Luigi
2010
- Oct 2010
  - Thu 28 Oct
    - Rebak Marina; the last dot for now.
    - Langkawi
  - Thu 21 Oct
    - Penang Hill
  - Mon 18 Oct
    - Penang.
  - Mon 11 Oct
    - Virtual Marina, Pangkor.
  - Sun 10 Oct
    - Port Klang, Kuala Lumpur, and Atheism
  - Sat 09 Oct
    - Day Tripper
  - Tue 05 Oct
    - Into the Malacca Strait.
- Sep 2010
  - Sun 26 Sep
    - Singapore
  - Sat 18 Sep
    - Google map update only
  - Tue 14 Sep
    - Nongsa Point Marina: civilzation with a capital C.
  - Fri 10 Sep
    - Chugging up the South China Sea, or, 'Slow boat to China'?
  - Sat 04 Sep
    - Bali Postscript
- Aug 2010
  - Mon 16 Aug
    - Bali International marina.
  - Sat 14 Aug
    - Gili islands Stopover
  - Fri 13 Aug
    - Fresh Bread Man
  - Wed 11 Aug
    - Wangi Wangi, Wakatobi.
  - Sat 07 Aug
    - Ambonibable
  - Mon 02 Aug
    - Banda Islands
- Jul 2010
  - Wed 28 Jul
    - Land ahoy!
  - Tue 27 Jul
    - Into the Banda Sea
  - Sat 24 Jul
    - Darwin: been there, done that.
  - Thu 15 Jul
    - Fw: Escape River, The Albany passage, Cape York, Siesia, The Endeavour Strait,The Gulf of Carpenteria, and the shackle debacle.
    - No gain without pain!
  - Thu 08 Jul
    - To Cape York
  - Sun 04 Jul
    - Lizard Island, Cairns it's not!
  - Fri 02 Jul
    - See Cairns in 24 hours
- Jun 2010
  - Mon 28 Jun
    - The Hinchinbrook Channel
  - Thu 24 Jun
    - Life's a(irlee) beach
  - Sun 20 Jun
    - Blunt Bay
  - Fri 18 Jun
    - First Day's Log. Whats a log, dad?
  - Mon 14 Jun
    - Long live the Queen
2009
- Dec 2009
  - Wed 02 Dec
    - The fat lady sings
- Nov 2009
  - Mon 30 Nov
    - Not over till the fat lady sings!
  - Fri 27 Nov
    - Leapfroging the Bugs in Morton Bay, Bongaree, a cinch at Skirmish Point, and a great sail up to Mooloolaba
    - To Wide Bar Bay
  - Fri 20 Nov
    - Donner und blitz noch einmal, und ein schmerz in meiner tasche
  - Tue 17 Nov
  - Thu 12 Nov
  - Fri 06 Nov
    - Where was I?
    - More Fisherman's Tales
  - Sun 01 Nov
    - The Hawkesbury River
- Oct 2009
  - Sat 31 Oct
    - Sydney Blog
  - Thu 22 Oct
    - Through Sydney Heads!
    - Twenty four hours in Port Stevens
  - Sat 17 Oct
    - Down to Port Macquarie
  - Sat 10 Oct
    - Coffs Harbour, another southerly change.
  - Wed 07 Oct
    - Coffs Harbour
  - Fri 02 Oct
    - Gold Coast
- Sep 2009
  - Fri 25 Sep
    - Red Mists, Brisbane Life
  - Fri 18 Sep
    - A bug in Morton Bay
  - Wed 16 Sep
    - Great Sandy Strait
  - Sat 12 Sep
    - Bundaberg and Fraser Island
2008
- Oct 2008
  - Fri 03 Oct
    - 'Welcome to Oz, that will be 250$ please.'
- Sep 2008
  - Sun 28 Sep
    - Into the Coral Sea
  - Tue 23 Sep
    - Noumea
  - Fri 19 Sep
    - Beating down to New Caledonia
  - Sun 14 Sep
    - Vanuatu
  - Mon 08 Sep
    - On our way again, at last.
- Aug 2008
  - Fri 29 Aug
    - Fiji
  - Tue 12 Aug
    - Tonga to fiji
  - Fri 08 Aug
    - What we did in Tongatapu
  - Tue 05 Aug
    - All at sea
- Jul 2008
  - Fri 25 Jul
    - Tongatapu
  - Sat 19 Jul
    - The Ha'apai Islands
  - Sat 12 Jul
    - Vava'u, Tonga
  - Mon 07 Jul
    - Doldrums, again
  - Wed 02 Jul
    - Ever heard of Aitutaki?
- Jun 2008
  - Sat 28 Jun
    - Cooking, The Cooks and the Captain
  - Tue 24 Jun
    - Bora Bora Blog
  - Sun 08 Jun
    - Atoms and atolls
  - Sun 01 Jun
    - Safe arrival in Ahe
- May 2008
  - Sat 31 May
    - Stargates in Paradise
  - Tue 27 May
    - The Marquesas Blog
  - Sat 17 May
    - The Marquesas
  - Sat 10 May
    - Safe arrival
  - Thu 08 May
    - Very nearly there!
  - Tue 06 May
    - Waterworld
  - Thu 01 May
    - Tradewind days
- Apr 2008
  - Mon 28 Apr
    - Storm in a saucepan
  - Sat 26 Apr
    - Unterwegs
  - Tue 22 Apr
    - Nine days out.
  - Fri 18 Apr
    - Tradewinds
  - Wed 16 Apr
    - Things can only get better!
  - Mon 14 Apr
    - Isla Isabella: living up to its name
  - Wed 09 Apr
    - Galapagos: the rough guide!
- Mar 2008
  - Tue 25 Mar
    - San Cristobal, Galapagos
  - Fri 21 Mar
    - Crossing the line
  - Thu 20 Mar
    - Dipping my stick
  - Tue 18 Mar
    - In the Zone
  - Sun 16 Mar
    - Into the blue, out of the blue
  - Fri 14 Mar
    - Drifting in the Las Perlas Archipielago
  - Mon 10 Mar
    - The Panama Canal
  - Thu 06 Mar
    - If at first you don't succeed
  - Mon 03 Mar
    - Todays message
- Feb 2008
  - Fri 22 Feb
    - Off Again
2007
- Dec 2007
  - Sun 09 Dec
    - Shelter Bay Marina, Colon
  - Wed 05 Dec
    - A rough old day
  - Tue 04 Dec
    - All out of time
  - Sun 02 Dec
    - Sorry, where was I?
    - Two days in heaven
- Nov 2007
  - Tue 27 Nov
    - Kissing the coral, again
    - Management and the San Blas Islands
  - Sun 25 Nov
    - Seen one, seem 'em all
  - Tue 20 Nov
    - San Blas at last
  - Sun 18 Nov
    - Sapzurro
  - Tue 13 Nov
    - Isla Fuerte
  - Sat 10 Nov
    - Islas Rosarios
- Oct 2007
  - Sat 27 Oct
    - Cartagena
  - Mon 22 Oct
    - Five Bays, eight boats.
  - Fri 19 Oct
    - Colombian Indians
  - Tue 16 Oct
    - Majic Monjes Del Sur
  - Sat 13 Oct
    - Aruba Port Rot
  - Wed 10 Oct
    - 55 mile intergalactic trip
  - Sun 07 Oct
    - Off at last, tomorrow!!
  - Mon 01 Oct
    - Still here man
- Sep 2007
  - Sat 22 Sep
    - 12 degrees north, 38 degrees centigrade
- Mar 2007
  - Tue 06 Mar
    - Arrival
  - Mon 05 Mar
    - Shreck
  - Sun 04 Mar
    - Carry on up the Caribbean
  - Sat 03 Mar
    - Gone with the wind
  - Fri 02 Mar
    - Heading South
- Jan 2007
  - Thu 25 Jan
    - 25th January
  - Sun 21 Jan
    - Here is a summary of the news
2006
- Dec 2006
  - Wed 20 Dec
    - 20 th Dec 2006. Its all over now.
  - Tue 19 Dec
    - Tuesday 19th Dec 2006: This could be the last time.
  - Mon 18 Dec
    - 18th Dec 2006 Just another manic Monday
  - Sun 17 Dec
    - Sunday 17th Dec 2006 The final countdown
  - Sat 16 Dec
    - Saturday, 16th December 2006. Rock around the clock.
  - Fri 15 Dec
    - 15th Dec 2006. Man, I feel like a Woman
  - Thu 14 Dec
    - 14th Dec 2006 Keep on Running (Dave Clarke Five)
  - Wed 13 Dec
    - 13thDec06 I'm going slightly mad....
  - Tue 12 Dec
    - 12th Dec 2006
  - Mon 11 Dec
    - Cast your fate to the wind, 11th Dec 2006
  - Sun 10 Dec
    - Sunday, 10th Dec 2006: Whistle down the wind, (please)!
  - Sat 09 Dec
    - Telegraph Road, 9th Dec 2006
  - Fri 08 Dec
    - A game of two halves
  - Thu 07 Dec
    - 7th Dec 2006, What shall we do with the .....
  - Wed 06 Dec
    - Yelow Submarine (not). Wednesday, 6th Dec
  - Tue 05 Dec
    - 5th December
  - Mon 04 Dec
    - we are sailing (for the weather girls)
  - Sun 03 Dec
    - 3rd Dec 2006, end of week one.
  - Sat 02 Dec
    - Saturday 2nd Dec
  - Fri 01 Dec
    - 1st December
- Nov 2006
  - Thu 30 Nov
    - 30th November update
  - Wed 29 Nov
    - 29 November 06
  - Tue 28 Nov
    - Daily log
  - Mon 27 Nov
    - ARC 2006, Day one
- Aug 2006
  - Fri 11 Aug
    - (no subject)