Friday lunchtime by Peter  still Jersey Marina 49:10.57N  02:6.98W

Phone instructions from Gavin {CHANGE TO AT} IT {DOT} Sea enabled David to divide the Sea Talk into two and isolate the faulty feed to the pedestal.  The separate network will enable us to control the autohelm independently.  Just sitting outside the marina sill doing final preparations - less stressful than watching the big digital display of water depth plunging (6metre range today and it is not even springs).

So provided it all works we are off again after some sea trial calibration of the system.  We should pass our most westerly point so far around dawn tomorrow.  Here's hoping ....