Lack of comms
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Dear all friends of Aurelia I am sure you are all wondering how
Aurelia is going and why we haven’t heard from the guys for a couple of
weeks. Well it turns out that they ran out of
airtime on the satellite phone. Normally I would have received an email
from the supplier advising that there are only a few minutes remaining, however
on this occasion I did not. Last week I sent an enquiry to the airtime
provider in London. On Friday night I received confirmation
that they had run out of minutes on 12 June – which is why we haven’t
heard from them since then. Unfortunately it was too late to add some
more time until Hopefully communication will be restored
within the next 24 hours or so – although it may take a few days before
the boys try out the phone again after so long. I am really sorry if you have been worried
– and like you all I am looking forward to hearing from them Kind regards Michael Webb-Speight From: Aurelia
[mailto:Aurelia {CHANGE TO AT} mailasail {DOT} com] Hi to all Well we have all arrived in the Marquises safe and sound. We
made land fall at 4.00am and was great to see the massive peaks of Am at present arranging all the official side of things and
Wade and May working away on the boat we have reprovisioned (bloody expencive)
and bought some more fishing gear to replace the one's donated on the passage
across. Since arriving there have been alot of boats come in each
day and it seems that the only boat to have done the trip in 16 days ( Thanks
to Michael giving me regular Grid file updates) is a 110ft Wally the
rest of the fleet taking anywhere between 17 - 20 days with most of them
taking a rum line course or just north of. We will be leaving here tomorrow and heading out to one of
the other islands to meet up with some friends for the night and then keep
pressing on to the Tuamoto's for a quick stop and then straight to Tahiti
hoping to be there in 8 - 10 days. Hope alls well with everyone and will wright again once on
passage Regards to all
Hamish Wade and May. |