Graptolite - Nearing Panama

Graptolite's Sailing Log
Martyn Pickup & Heike Richter
Sat 2 Feb 2008 02:18
10:00.68N 078:13.76W 40 miles north of the Panamanian coast.

It looks like we will miss the official end of this leg tomorrow by just an
hour or two unless Grapto goes faster than she ever has before. "More steam
down there in the boiler room!"

I've just been re-reading Capt. Joshua Slocum's 'Sailing Alone Around the
World' for inspiration. Thank you again Mike and Jacqui for the birthday
pressie. I wonder how the good Captain would have handled suddenly becoming
engineless and without electronics when he didn't have any to start with. A
simpler age when merely waving a rifle in the direction of thieving natives
got them to run away. Times change.

M