29/2/08 9:00 AM

We arrived at Puerto Williams at 18:30 yesterday, went ashore for dinner and several bottles of wine. Without going into details, Gabriele, Paolo and Steve distinguished themselves no end in the bar of the  old ship Micalvi to which we are rafted up outside  two other boats.  On the way here I tried to re-calibrate the  wind indicator and upon  further examination  we found the Force 10 wind had forced it over sideways in its mounting so instead of pointing up vertically, it was on its side horizontally.  It only took a few minutes to correct the orientation, we re-calibrated it (which requires driving the boat around in circles slowly) and now it’s back to normal.  Coming in yesterday the bow thruster didn’t function but we haven’t yet had a chance to look into that issue. My crew is slowly emerging in various states on hangoverness and when they can listen to the engine noise without too much pain we’ll be off to Ushuaia.

A few pictures attached: Nik’s Deck Wash and Force 10 at the chart table, Gabriele’s dolphins, one of many wrecks in the Beagle Channel approach and some others which require no explanation.