Day four Slow slow
Zepher
Chris & Lyn Darch
Mon 14 Jul 2008 21:16
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14:09.23S
140:48.02W
High Folks,
As we wind our way slowly towards the Tuamotoes ,
self inflicted this time as we could not make enough speed to get there for
Bastille day , we will arrive a day later on the 15th , great debate has ensued
as to when is the correct time to enter the passage into the atoll , the tide
tables from two different sources have different calculations , and the
Admiralty pilot and the Pacific guide pilot have another view on the calculation
, we have decided to go for the old Admiralty pilot as they have been published
since the year plonk, it is as we find not a calculation of six hour intervals
but is correlated by the moons rise and fall , the basic std tide tables work on
the same premise but in these atolls there is a difference of some 9 hrs between
slack waters or so our workings show , this will be put to the test tomorrow
morning at about 8 o/c when we make landfall at Rangiroa ..
A tidal fraught crew
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