Sunda Strait - Krakatoa
Digiboat's "Product Testing"
Simon Blundell
Fri 6 Mar 2015 06:17
05:37.06S 106:02.09E
0106z 06/03
After an easy
afternoon with the new spinnaker set sailing across the lowest stretch of the
South China Sea, we entered the Baur Straight for a night transit. In the early
hours of the morning the thunderstorms started to appear on the
radar.
Several hours of
heavy thunderstorms and washing-machine seas entertained us as we entered the
Java Sea and resulted in a day head-first in the lazarette adding additional
bracing to the steering ram mounting bracket. The seas abated early
afternoon for a gentle motor-sail across the remaining (and fishless) Java Sea
to place us at the N end of the Sunda Strait for a night transit through the
massive offshore rigs and the myriad of support and supply vessels surrounding
them.
Sunrise now and
Krakatoa about 40 miles ahead so should be visible soon and towering over us
through the rest of the day. By tomorrow we should be firmly out into the
Indian Ocean where our lures should start to work again.
Meanwhile, even
without the promised fresh tunas, Tim, Carol and Chooky continue to serve up
lunches and dinners suitable for far finer dining conditions than we have
perched on our laps.
SJB