Graptolite - Logging the Logs
Graptolite's Sailing Log
Martyn Pickup & Heike Richter
Mon 1 Dec 2008 01:44
On Saturday we completed fuelling and fooding and set off down the Kumai
River in a soup of floating vegetation. Our next destination is Bataam, 500
miles to the northwest to clear out of Indonesia. At this time of year there
is a 2-3 knot current against us and no wind so it's going to take a while.
The only wildlife in these waters seems to be fishermen. I can't imagine
what they are trying to fish for. We have had no bites in days. There are no
birds, flying fish, dolphins or anything.
A solution has come to me for the Southeast Asia deforestation problem. They
should just stop chucking the trees in the water. We took a hit from a
couple of big logs in the early hours of yesterday which smashed up our
speed instruments (also called a log) and gave us a bit of a fright but no
other obvious damage. There are also a lot of freighters and tankers around
that seem to be unmanned as far as I can tell as they never change course if
we are in their way but it makes the night watches go by quicker.
M