Hunting the squeak - 41:49.827N 24:41.144W

Voyage of Wanderingstar
Ben Bonnick
Sun 3 Jun 2018 13:52
I spent much of yesterday hunting down a squeak that was tormenting me throughout the day. I was intermittent and would stop whenever I was closing down on it. It seemed to be in the cabin, but when in the cockpit I could hear it again, it wasn’t loud but annoying like a dripping tap. I've not heard it for a couple of hours….but I’ve a tin of WD40 within easy reach at all times and I think the squeak knows its days are numbered.

Made steady progress yesterday and expect to make very good progress over the next 24 hours as the winds pick up. I have less than 1000 mies to go, which is always a major milestone for me. I've set a personal objective of getting home in time to see the first England World Cup game with a bacon sandwich and bottle of Fullers ESB.

Yesterday in the distance I could see a whale spouting then it disappeared and about 15 mins later my depth gauge registered a depth of 30 meters (its approx 2500 meters here, so deep that the depth gauge can’t hit the bottom). The only reason the depth gauge suddenly registered a depth of 30 meters was it picked up the whale passing under me. About 10 mins later I saw it on my other side.

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