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Tiger Balm on Tour
Gordon Millar & Colette Mullins
Mon 14 Nov 2011 16:33
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TIME: 0030
SOG: 6.6Kts
COG: 263M
DTG: 247nm
ETA: 1600, 16 Nov 2011
Well thought I had the currents worked out,
but.......! Seems as we cross between Borneo and Singpore things are
confused. At midday we were maintaining a comfortable 8kts, but when the
tide turned to ebb we sort of hit a wall, and the speed dropped pretty quickly
to 6kts. We increased RPM, but then had to launch the stabilisers, so
have made slower progress than we had planned. Good news is the delay
means we will transit the Singapore Harbour in daylight.
Fuel consumption is as expected, averaging
1.5ltrs/nautical mile. We should arrive at Puteri Harbour with approx 500ltrs,
or 300nm of fuel remaining.
This is the longest leg of the journey - some 40
hours long, and will take us to our furthest point from land, about 120nm.
Our next turn is in 26 hours, so we are excited and looking forward to
that, should be around the 0300 watch change Tue/Wed night.We
are sticking to our normal routine of 3 hours on, 3 hours off, which is not too
tiring -mind you Red Bull helps - "gives you wings"
- apparently!
Jad been a quiet piece of ocean, hadn't seen
another boat for the last 9 hours or so, now we have 3 on the AIS - one
port, one starboard and one dead ahead! As we approach the shipping
lanes at the entrance to SIngapore harbour it will get busier As an aside
we are now out out of range of any man-made lights - apart from our own
navigation lights, and as thee is no cloud, the stars are truly spectacular. The
Milky Way is particularly clear.
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