Jan 14^th  No VHF watch at Armda station Timbales today

 A grey damp start to the day, no sign of Pato Man, the Big Foot but a large blue cruise liner passed our Brecknock Island anchorage passing by too quick for us to grab a wifi signal.

Technology down here in fifty four south country has been unusual. The old fashioned system of Drake, Columbus and Darwin with the red magnetic pointer has deviation around fifteen degrees. 

GPS has been very accurate but the chart datum is in error between three quarters of a mile and two miles. NASA got men on the moon but we have not accurately mapped southern Chile and Tierra del Fuego.

Some Pacific swell still pushing in but all tides favourable as we hold almost dead East. Rock banks and waterfalls on grand scales for the late lunch arrival at Canal O’Brien. Armada VHF check in with Timbales but no answer in English.

An Armada patrol vessel answered on their behalf. Advised their AIS was broken and the radio operator at Timbales was unable to speak English. What kind of an International VHF 16 watch is that? 

The grey rain rose with a forty knot push of wind. Island Chair roared up in the sunshine for a spectacular Jurassic Park look of an island anchorage bang in the middle of Canal O’Brien. Snook about the island to come into the east bay out of that wind and up into a tiny nook called Caleta Cushion.

54.54.00S  70.00.00W

There’s a name for a soft landing, Caleta Cushion.