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Topic: Sleeping
By Alex on January 17, 2005, at 1032 UTC
Topic(s): Birds, Dressing, Party gear, Sleeping, Watches We’ve now changed target to waypointA fixed location with specified latitude and longtitude co-ordinates maintained by GPS Alpha, 1104 nm to the east. Should take about 8 days in our current fairly conservative mode. Latest report puts us already south of the northernmost sighting of ice, but it’s a long way ahead. Todays wildlife: near the Snares, two tiny penguin-like birds – square back ends apparently with a foot at each rear corner, little narrow wings flapping away but only just airborne. … Continue reading
By Alex and Peter on February 24, 2005, at 2145 UTC
Topic(s): Birds, Sailchange, Sleeping, Supplies & Storage 2145hrs 24 Feb 2005 UTC 50’52”S 112’31”W Map Ref 79
Pete: Reflections, part 3. We were inDunedin, the xrays showed no broken ribs but alex would need a week to recover. this proved to be a blessing as it gave us time to evaluate the storage problems we had on … Continue reading
By Alex on June 6, 2005, at 1800 UTC
Topic(s): Sleeping 1800hrs 06 Jun 2005 UTC Falmouth
Domestic updates for a couple of months from here. I have some more photos, some fromStanleyand theAtlanticand some historical which i will put on a cd for M &S. Here’s the To Do list for Fmth – just starting to get stuck … Continue reading
By Alex on October 17, 2005, at 1515 UTC
Topic(s): Dressing, Life aboard, Liferaft, Sleeping, Supplies & Storage 1515hrs 17 Oct 2005 UTC 40’08”S 004’55”E Ref 449
Wriggle, shimmy and glide – people ask us how we live in our little bus shelterExplanation here.
I sleep in the port (left) bunk – in which it is physically impossible to sleep straight or comfortable because the chain plate (big … Continue reading
By Alex on October 30, 2005, at 0200 UTC
Topic(s): Fresh water, Sleeping 0200hrs 30 Oct 2005 UTC 38’32”S 025’39”E Ref 500
Another frustrating day – we are bare polingExplanation here again in a NE/35-40 off the back of a high – I misread the gribWeather files. Graphics in Binary file: GRIBWeather files.
Graphics in Binary file: GRIB files associate a specific weather datum (eg wind velocity or atmospheric pressure) with a geographic position. Because the resulting file is a collection of these points they are extremely small and so ideal over slow links such as sailmail. files associate a specific weather datum (eg wind velocity or atmospheric … Continue reading
By Alex on November 12, 2005, at 0840 UTC
Topic(s): Communications, Sleeping 0840hrs 12 Nov 2005 UTC 42’46”S 055’20”E Ref 544
I’m writing this in the hope that the Satcom is back in business. (it isn’t – so transferring back to sailmailSailmail is the system that Berrimilla uses for email communication. It is a non-profit association of yacht owners operating a network … Continue reading
By Peter on December 4, 2005, at 2345 UTC
Topic(s): Clothing, Sleeping Hi Pete here, I haven’t written for a long time because of our communication problems but today the sun is out we have blue skies and last night I saw the stars after such a long time of complete blackness. All this light has lifted our spirits and the … Continue reading
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