St Helena Next
Wandering Dream
Steve Litson
Mon 18 Jan 2016 13:53
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20:28:8S 000:3:3W
Boat Spotting
We saw our first boat in the early hours last
night. CK Bluebird, a 220m long cargo ship bound for Singapore. We haven't seen
any
ships since leaving Cape Town. Greenwich Mean Time / Universal Time We passed the 000 degrees meridian today. Our
clocks have gone back and as we are in line with Greenwich we are UK time, as we
will be in St Helena.
Slow progress
The winds have dropped as forecast and we had
to start the engine for a few hours last night. The engine has a clock so you
can work out how long it has run for, with the engine being the original fitted
to WD in 1977 it is amazing to think it is still going and just clocked up
10,000 hours running time. That says a lot for Daimler Benz and marinised taxi
engines. Fingers crossed and touch wood it keeps going now. I also clocked up
26,000 miles on this circumnavigation yesterday (roughly the circumference of
the Earth). What a lot of miles stones are being ticked off on this
leg.
Miles covered in the last 24 hours: 134
miles
miles to St Helena: 476 miles
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