Day 14 Mustang position 34°27.21 S 169°38.09E
Mark_needler
Professional Skipper
Mon 21 Feb 2011 23:40
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NZT Well the batteries have finally given up
the ghost and we have turned them off, I spent a couple of hours this morning
drury rigging a power supply to the navigation equipment which is working well
at the moment, last night we had a nice breeze for a change and covered some
good ground unfortunately the weather did what it was predicted it to (the
first time Iâve know it to do that in the Tasman!) Oh well we are
only about 170 nms from North Cape now and would hope to be a lot closer
tomorrow and definitely in double figures. We did quite of on water maintenance
yesterday and this morning so far, we checked the fluids on engine and Genset,
topped up A/R. Sheet for locking pin on Yankee furler repaired after chafing
wore though the outer sheave so I whipping twined both parts of that so that it
doesnât create a problem in the future. It shouldnât do as it is in a none
critical area and the rope only needs to be connected to work. One of the lines
for the lazy jacks pulled through the pulley on the mast so I went up the mast
to re run that, all sorted now.
Raj went around the yacht today and
tightened all the shackles and put a cable tie on each one to prevent them from
coming undone. Apart from that there not a lot going
on. On a domestic note itâs nice to have
electric toilets when there is power but not so good when there isnât!!!!, also
I have had to re route the gas as we wonât be able to cook as the gas sensor has
no power to allow to gas flow Chris did a great job of finishing that off, itâs
kind of being in the stone age without Barney Rubble and the
Dinosaurs!! It âs just an opportunity really another
normal day at the office. Looking on the bright side the toilets will be
clean when we get
in...lol Iâll stay in touch and let you guyâs know if
there are anymore humorous things going
on. Regards
from Mark, Raj and
Chris Oh by the way the fish arenât
playing the game, Tossers! and the rations are running low oh well itâs only 2/3
days to go and I'm sure Jenny Craig would endorse the regime...  |