27:27.844N 17:37.386W
If Knot Y Knot
Patricia Day
Fri 17 Nov 2006 12:09
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Subject: 27:27.844N 17:37.386W
Left La Gomera 16.15pm, 25 knot winds,
7.1SOG. Then it all went floppy and spent about 3 hours going nowhere
while the fickle wind kept changing.
BIG SWELL.
Rotten night, but I will hope it will get better as
I remember what it is like being on the high seas instead of Canary hopping,
which can be bad enough.
Must conserve battery as radar went off at
5am. Evidently you can t run fridge, navigation lights, GPS, chart
plotter/radar/GPS and autopilot if you are only doing 2 knots.
I will try to plot noon position on website and
arrange a time to keep the sat phone on to pick up e mails. Any ideas on a
good time - 9pm?
Don t need weather update until I get to Cape
Verdes. Still don t know if I am stopping or going
straight.
Can you let me know if this position update gets to
the web diary, please.
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