2:26.38N 126:42.76W
Farr Gone Blog
Stuart Cannon
Wed 6 Apr 2011 21:35
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Changes.
About once an hour, today everything has changed.
Clouds come and go, rain too and the wind comes from a variety of compass
points. Keeps the sailor on his toes. Strange day finding me on different tacks
and at different speeds.
Speaking of compass's, the ships compass has died.
No great loss as it had an air bubble that prevented accurate use but of course
this means either the three electronic compasses and a cheap handheld and one in
the binoculars so I'm covered. I had to pull out the binnacle mount compass to
tighten and loctite two screws that persistently loosened and this made the
wheel wobble badly. Anyway tightened the screws and thought I'd have a go at the
compass, after all, what could possibly go wrong? Well the problem was a crack
in the base and of course my investigation turned the crack into a fracture. The
housing had just died of sun exposure so of course there was the flood of fluid
from the compass and no possibility of repair. Still I'm keeping the wreckage in
case. At the time Jimmy Buffet was singing slow boat to china, with the line
"honey throw the compass over the rail". He got a laugh and I considered
following his advice.
Position 2:26.38N 126:42.76W cog 243 at present due
to wind (lack of)
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