Dec 10, 2005 – 0330hrs UTC

0330hrs 10 Dec 2005 UTC 43’53”S 141’42”E Ref 637

Wooohoooa primitive, exultant, gibbon-like call given out by an old geezerDictionaries define a geezer as an old person, generally an eccentric old man. Its origin likely in the word masquerader (colloquially, guiser) from Middle English gysar. Go figure, as the Americans say.; many variations as listed, in order of emphasis: Woohoo Woooohooo WOOOHOOO WOOOHOOO! WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOa primitive, exultant, gibbon-like call given out by an old geezerDictionaries define a geezer as an old person, generally an eccentric old man. Its origin likely in the word masquerader (colloquially, guiser) from Middle English gysar. Go figure, as the Americans say.; many variations as listed, in order of emphasis: Woohoo Woooohooo WOOOHOOO WOOOHOOO! WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO!! – we have another taker for the London Marathon 07. Brave Dave, sailor, but, it seems not a runner, is going to give it a go. Onya Dave! Four of us so far – and one possible – I can’t believe that that’s all! We will organise a team email address list after we get back toSydneyin January and then it’s out on the roads with intent. I’m a floppy rag compared to the lithe and fit old fart I used to be so it’s going to take some work to get back under 3.30. I think under 3.00 is now beyond me, but worth a go. Please email the website if you’d like to be on the email list. You don’t have to be a runner – just interested.

As we are travelling now, we will roundSE Capeat about 11/1700 UTC – Early Monday morning local time. From there, it is 50 miles to the Iron PotA small island lying close to the south-eastern coast of Tasmania around the entrance to the River DerwentThe Derwent is a river in Tasmania, Australia. Its large estuary forms the port of Hobart. . It is the site of Tasmania’s first lighthouse. and the end of the circumnavigation. Another 11 will see us into RYCTRoyal Yacht Club of Tasmania inHobartso ETAEstimated Time of Arrival RYCTRoyal Yacht Club of Tasmania about 1500 local time on Monday 13 or 0400 UTC. I am still hoping to make it by my ETAEstimated Time of Arrival of Sunday 11th – perhaps in both hemispheres!

The ExaminerShe who asks awkward questions of the crew and tests them with difficult tasks. still lurks out there and we are not home yet! The satphone is on +881 621 440078 and about $15/minute – we’ll try to answer it but don’t leave messages – just try again immediately – if it still goes into messagebank, we’re doing a sail change. I have dongled SoBSoftware on Board, from Digitboat – navigation software used by Alex for both circumnavigations. so we have the high detail very large scale charts on screen and we will keep it running from here. We have just enough diesel to run the engine morning and evening.

Bill K, thanks for suggestion don’t know whether you got my satphone message – really can’t do much from here – if you could contact Richard Bennett and arrange, that would be huge. Doubt we’ll get to Tas in daylight but possible late tomorrow evening. The best shot might be the two white flares at the Iron PotA small island lying close to the south-eastern coast of Tasmania around the entrance to the River DerwentThe Derwent is a river in Tasmania, Australia. Its large estuary forms the port of Hobart. . It is the site of Tasmania’s first lighthouse. as we close the loop. I think there will be a few boats around with us too. That could be anytime on Monday but probably around midday. Thanks – do you know whether Richard has VHFVery High Frequency radio. Short range radio equipment for voice and other applications such as AISAutomatic Identification System. An automatic tracking system used on ships and by vessel traffic services (VTS) for identifying and locating vessels.. in his aircraft – we did, but it’s unusual. If he does, tell him we’ll listen on 16 and go to 72 or whatever works for him.