Day 60 Position Report 03:50.520S 107:43.75E

Mark_needler
Professional Skipper
Tue 23 Oct 2007 06:14
We were a little worried whether or not the fresh water would last until Darwin!...... since about 0800 this morning it's being raining we have all had showers outside apart form Ben who is as I write outside now lathering up. The main tanks have been topped off all the auxiliary bottles have been swapped for fresh rain water and we are now replacing the water in the five or so 40 liter water cans. There is a dustbin that is 3/4 full, so I fairly confident that water is no longer an issue, once I've swapped all the water in the water cans there will be no where to put the water apart from buckets and the dustbin all of which are pretty full. So in order to get to Darwin our only issue now is Diesel and weather dependant we will get some favorable wind in the next couple of days at the moment we are motoring because what we are lacking in wind is made up by the rain coming down in stair rods! We are moving on long at a reasonable pace at the moment and have averaged 150nms, not as good as in the Indian Ocean but this as good as it get somewhere in the South china sea (sounds like something out of a bond movie, only I can never remember it raining so much!) heading for the Java sea which we should be in at the end of today. the position report was at 1200 boat time on 23/10/07, which was 17:10 NZ time.I'll drop another report in a couple of days

Regards

A very soggy Ningaloo Delivery team!