As McQ said, we got headed. The ExaminerShe who asks awkward questions of the crew and tests them with difficult tasks. was dozing or beating someone else up when we were at GareloiA volcano in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, USA. More on Wikipedia. but she’s back on the job. I’ve just squeezed Berri so that I could take out the 2 GareloiA volcano in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, USA. More on Wikipedia. reefs and there’s now a 6 kt featherdown breath from somewhere north. 5.2 kts with the engine pushing us along and the sails just filled. We’ve had the little heady – still happily stitched – since way before AmchitkaAmchitka Pass:a strait in the Aleutian Islands, between the Rat Islands group to the west and the Delarof Islands to the east. Amchitka Island was the site of the Cannikin nuclear test – the biggest underground explosion ever conducted by the USA (as far as we know). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amchitka but the big one would be better now.
Such a shame that the local conditions are so gloopy dismold grey. We just made out the base of Tanaga volcano as we passed it a mile and a half to seaward – black and with snow streaks in the gullies was all – but this would be the most marvellous trip in sunshine.
Dicky B – my pre-GareloiA volcano in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, USA. More on Wikipedia. consultationA regular engagement with alcohol. One might say this whole epic is a Consultation with a bit of a sail round it. See also Conservation Mode; Linear and Parallel Methods of Consultation with my 300 RANSARoyal Australian Navy Sailing Association; a sailing club located in Sydney, Australia. consultants reminded me so much of Tom – do you remember the party we had the day we got back from not getting to Rio? TommyMelville, Tommy: IsabellaAlex's sister asked Alex who Tommy was after seeing his name in the log. She received this (edited) answer:“Tommy was the owner of Jacqui, the boat I first set out in for Cape Horn in 1982. Great guy, rough as they come, magnificent seaman, not into bullshit of any sort and someone I really liked and trusted. He left the boat with me when we got back, so I had this lovely boat to play with for a few months as well. He died a few years ago and I didn't know, sadly, until recently. He owned a shipyard and tugboat in Brisbane. ... He'd have loved this.”’s little barrel of factory strength OP with orange juice? And me and Tom having to front some rather indignant Customs people next morning after the press got in on the act? He’s out here somewhere!
Appendages now firmly crossed that it all hangs together for another 12 hours or so. Ride it in with us and thanks for coming along this far.