Nov 13, 2021... Mallorca --> Almerimar... 24 hours run....
SV Eleonora
Michael A. Andronov
Sat 13 Nov 2021 17:00
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37:52.521N 000:09.365E UTC 1700 We have finished the first 24 hours... 153 nm.... Not bad, not good... Just another 153 nm of run... Nearly half of the way to the destination... Quite a wonderful day... Since noon -- sunny, blue skies with some puffy clouds... The greyish nasty weather has been left in the wake behind... Very warm on the Sun... Nearly summer again... The price for above paradise -- there is much less wind, and though we are still moving and progressing towards Cartagena TSS... the progress is much slower... The seas has reduced too... But at much slower rate then the wind... Consequently, we had a couple of bumpy/rolling hours... Somehow -- this part of the sea seems to be free of fishmen, and traffic... Used it to catch some sleep... The next 24 hours -- are going to be real fun since all the place between Cartagena and Cabo De Gata -- is always full of traffic, taking the strange routes, fishmen -- who seems trying to fill the places between that traffic, and completely weird winds, whose goal is to prove that the computer can not predict the weather no matter what.... Another nucance... The forecast for Sunday -- some headwinds for us, at least during the first half of the day... I have no particular plan how to deal with that... The first thought was -- to sneak under the shore towards Cabo de Gata, hoping that there would be some off shore winds... But may be it would be simpler to wait a bit... And then, around the coner of Cabo de Gata -- some strait miles to Almerimar... ( Seems I'm going there, not Aquadulcia... ).... And then -- meetings with friends, repairs, memories of the summer gone... and hope it will repeated again next year! Everything is OK on board... ( Except satillite and windows 7, who do not want to cooperate and to send the e-mails ... Though I made some progress to fix it, still there is no proper solution... The winner is obvious -- Iridium... Since the price of air minutes for all those tests -- would be enourmous... with no actual data flowing over the net.... Life... What can I do ? ) On this note -- have a great time, Talk to you soon, M. |