Day 4 Position 33 19.836 S 174 11.447 E 1200NZT
Mark_needler
Professional Skipper
Fri 17 Aug 2012 00:20
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24hrs run ~ 151.3
nms
17/08/2012 We had a great
restart to the delivery the autopilot was working well and we were in lighter
airs so motor sailing at low revs and travelling at good speeds 6 to 7 knots,
although Hind Sight is a reasonable tender yacht she goes along relatively well
with very little sail up. The new autopilot uses a lot of amps but the motor
hasn’t even shown any signs of getting even the slightest bit warm which is a
good news! The Customs guy at Marsden
Cove Marina, Bruce Cooper was a very friendly guy and helped us as much as he
could and things went very easily thanks
Bruce! By the way Chris, the Fridge works very well, in
fact we had to turn it down as it was freezing everything!! we will try and get
as much as possible working by the time we get into Port
Vila.
Well last night my 2000 to 2400
watch was going great lovely stars in the sky, just about on the rumb line
and very warm considering and then about 2310 a whole herd of those big cheeky
black clouds came across, took me off course for 30 mins, dropped the temp by 7
degrees and messed up the flat seas! bloody typical of the tropical north!!! In
the end i went inside to warm my hands on the chart table light which
fortunately enough was quite warm.
I've got a list of things to do
today including finding out why the spreader lights come on when the mast head,
tricolour light switches are turn on, in fact the only switch they don’t come on
with is the lower navigation lights, no drama though its more or less legal and
on coming vessels will know what we are and in which direction we are
travelling! others include fixing the new search light to the bulk head by the
companion way and moving the fan that is now wedged along side the SSB, apart
from that just a quite day at the office, well not quite We have a better view
and weather!!! sunny and hotter!! Mr Ross, I’ll factor out the down time on the
delivery and let you know our sailing time so we can see who got it right.....
mind you I’m not against cheating when there is a free glass of wine involved
 !Will see what I can get done today and let you
guys know, I’ve already torn apart the serial to Sat phone cable so if you are
reading this it worked! Regards
Mark, Quentin &
Shawn |