34:47.589N 47:52.648W
SV Eleonora
Michael A. Andronov
Mon 11 Jun 2018 06:53
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June 11th alread ( if the GPS IS right...
)...
UTC 0533
1353.2 miles are behind...
We are within unchartered waters... ( Do not
worry, I DO have charts, no proplem... but )...
For some reasons, the companies, producing the maps,
decided that around to 50W they should draw the line, and change maps...
( I do not understand, why the 50W has been
choosen... If the person decided to cruise the Caribbeans, then he
probably would not need the map as East as 50W... And the person, who goes
to Azores from Europe -- probably would not need it either... But the line
should be drawn somewhere... How else would you charge for 2 different
sets of maps? And the line is somewhere around 50W ). How do I learn it
?
Simple -- by experiment!
So, the Furuno plotter has been the first to show
our approach to the vertical line on plotter beoynd which there is no
map... Then the PC plotter suite follows the trend...
;-) I've been wathching hypnotised
what is going to happen when we cross the line... What is behind
it? ;-) The Ocean around looks flat and the same... But you never know...
;-)
Three, two, one... Done...
The Ocean looks the same, the Sun is the
same... the sky is the same...
Oh... alarm on the GPS.... WAAS signal gone...
Searching the manual revealed that it seems that there is no WAAS signal in that
area... Coverage by the USA is over, the European coverage -- not there
yet... Indeed, who need the precision in that area? Plus or minus a
hundred meeters between friends, in that area... who cares...
So, seems we are officially in no man
land, within unchartered waters... ;-)
( I do have a map, do not worry... But all it shows
-- countours of the under water land... a few kilometers below...
;-) It has been like that for a while, and it will be like that for a
while... And the maps said that there is a land, further
East... We will see...)
Beautilful night sky in the Ocean. No
moon. Plenty of stars... some large and bright, some smaller...
some blinking, as trying to tell their stories... I'm doing the crossing
of the Atlantic -- the trip we have discussed so often, for so long
years... with friends in Montreal...
Some wanted to do it... some consider it to be mission
impossible in the small boat, and consider Boing 747 the smallest suitable,
and all consider it is nuts to do such trip solo...
Fred Boulus -- whom I knew for more then 15 years.
And all those years -- he has been preparing to make the crossing to
Europe, has been building his wonderful boat... He never did it. He
never would... ( The tragic event took his life last March... )... And may be
today, one of those little blinking stars -- is him, watching and taking care
about us ? Salut, Fred! Part of my trip -- for
you!
On the night like today, it is becoming cristal
clear and obvious that the actual force which is moving the boat -- is not the
wind, not the weather system, passing somewher NE of Nova Scotia...
It is attraction to the people on land, to whom you are sailing to -- no
matter how long and strange your route may be... You loose that
attraction -- and you are joining the fleet o Ghosts Of High Seas,
leaded by Flying Dutchman... May be it them, cracking on VHF, in the
middle of nowhere, with no ships around ?
But back to bussiness.
We are OK. We are progressing in the 'right
direction'. Latest discovery -- configuration of sails and pole position
for the light and moderate winds from the quarter and back.
Good night,
M.
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