Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Hi All....Today we crack the 1000 Mile mark on this leg...Presently we are 20.11 North    124.34 West....All is well with us here...No major equipment failures to report, our Solar and wind gen are giving us enough power to keep the 1,100 Amp Hr  battery bank charged up ..average for the last 6 days sailing was 142 NM/day... should be a good day today as we are doing a constant 6.5 SOG's..... Due to NE winds cant straight line to the islands (heading required 204 Deg) so are control jibing every 12 Hr (Thats changing course to non nautical readers) so we stay on track, serves us right for not getting a whisher pole before we left the USA, still she goes down wing with it 20 Deg off the stern OK without it ...Caught 3 fish yesterday, 2 tuna and a yellow fin, we let them go as they were too big for us to eat....Seen a couple of ships on this leg. Strongly recomend A.I.S. for any one thinking of getting it.  Ours is the Tx/Rx Raymarine. Yesterday I honestly picked up a ship at 624 Mies!!...Radar also works well, horizon for is is 24 NM...Best news is we are logging into the PPJ net each night and do position reports to them, 7 yachts are out there today with more expected as the Month goes on. Closest other yacht to us last night was 625NM but that will get less as we are all heading to the same place.... OK that about raps it up, will do another update in 3 or 4 days time or unless something of note happens...Love to all, Mike, Jan and Kimbo X

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