Day Twenty Seven Postion 9 33'38"N 062 26'37"E - 0830 Local Arabian Time (GMT +0300) SOG 8.5knts
Mark_needler
Professional Skipper
Wed 19 Sep 2007 06:30
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In The last couple of days we have been averaging
200nms per day which is very good going, this leaves Males only three days plus
change from our current position, another failure on board, it appears that the
brain for the VHF has decided that it doesn't want to do the rest of the trip
and has given up the ghost, fortunately it is covered by warranty, the problem
is finding somewhere that has an agent that will replace the unit! or even has a
replacement. We do have a hand held unit on board the boat and a Sateilite
phone so we aren't what you would call cut off!.
It is just the fact that I could waste another day
in port trying to sort it all out before I get under way again and my
personal target date for getting back home to Auckland for the 14
November isn't looking very likely at this stage.
We will need to fill up at least three of our
four gas bottles if not all four, mind you when we left Aden we had 2 empty and
the cost of transport alone was 45USD so I decided to flag it and refill in
Males, time will tell if my decision was a smart one......
after that just the run of the mill stuff like
fresh food, water and diesel and then a couple of beers and on our way, i'll
update when closer to Males.
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