Southern Hemisphere
Digiboat's "Product Testing"
Simon Blundell
Tue 22 Nov 2011 17:43
00°20.181S 105°44.708E
23/11
0120LT
Light breezes
mostly from the N so far. Apart from a hour now and then of sailing when
alongside a storm cell, the rest of the time has been motor sailing on one
engine.
A full contingent
of Shellbacks onboard now that we've crossed the Line. King Neptune has visited
El Oro often enough this year and didn't bother appearing this time as the
Myanmar Pollywogs had no idea what I was on about anyway.
Still no electric
autopilot but managing with our rice eating alternative. The Cadets are now
called George 1 and George 2, and are doing most of the helming. Win (George 1)
has been onboard for the last 5000 miles so is something of an old hand already,
so we had him on the wheel the whole time as we crossed the Mallaca Straits
shipping channel out of Singapore! Wai Yan (George 2) is fresh onboard and still
needs some calibrating. [Anyone know the origin of naming the autopilot
"George"? Earliest reference I know is it was used by James Bond in one of
the very early movies - but it must pre-date that?]
Otherwise all
settling into passage life onboard EO - sanding, polishing, varnishing,
sleeping, cooking rice, and construction of the new freezer
continues....
SJB