onward
Moorglade's Voyage
Ted Wilson
Tue 18 Jun 2013 16:38
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Our Position is 39:00.80N
63:32.57W
Tuesday 18th June
Distance logged in the last 24 hours
156Nm
Midday weather and sea. Sunny, some high
cloud 25.2C sea state low swell with quite choppy waves.
We are now settling into routines of sleep eat and
watchkeeping, broken by the occasional malfunction. So far all fixable.
Yesterday it was the laptop refusing to connect to the Iridium modem, which may
have resulted in a temporary blog from Kay, before I'd sorted the issue.
Then the toilet blocked which some pretty smelly work in the heads and the
cockpit locker, where the valves are, before it was finally fixed with a length
of rigging wire with suitably spayed ends fed down the pipe whiles being spun by
the battery drill. The last user of the heads before blockage will not be named
but he has been issued with Ducolax. This mornings problem was when the Aries
servo paddle recovery string frayed through and wrapped around the Duogen
propeller. The fix require hanging off the transom boarding ladder with a sharp
knife while Jim hauled up the entangled parts to just within reach. Pleased to
say no damage done and both units working well again.
This afternoons focus will be preparing for the
strong winds no doubt with heavy rain due tonight and tomorrow. We have been
making a more southerly track today so we can free off under small sails as the
wind comes through from SW and tending to back.
The crew and boat are in good shape but after
tomorrow we would like a bit of easy sailing and sunny weather. We shall
see.
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