Half full, half empty?
Fleck
Fri 4 May 2012 09:12
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Friday, May 4th
Position 02:17.65
105:16.79
I'm in the Banka Strait, about half distance to
Jakarta. Tired after a gentle but long night with poor visibility keeping me up
and about on the lookout on the haul down from the Islands off Linga. In the
Strait you can anchor by the shore which is very flat, with mangroves, and
quite featureless; but I can sleep tonight and tomorrow night at the
other end of the Strait, then another 36 hour trip to the Thousand Islands off
Jakarta. Generally fair intermonsoon weather, but won't say more unless the
weather gods are listening in. Fleck behaving herself well, and survived a
collision with a very big log this morning: they are all over the place here,
and lie almost submerged, like crocs! Have managed just half an hour under sail,
so just as well I have spare fuel, which I shall transfer to the main tank
tonight. This is a journey that I have done before, and apart from three
pretty anchorages, two of which I have already enjoyed, it is a bit of a slog,
and either hot, if couldy, or very hot, if sunny. Never mind, Fleck isn't going
to get home unless we do this bit, so onwards and upwards, or at least not
onwards and downwards!
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