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Topic: Clothing 0704hrs 03 Feb 2005 UTC 49’07”S 169’14”W Map Ref 44 2015nm Cold damp dawn with misty rain – but good breeze. Some birds around yesterday but none today. Breadmaking yesterday spectacularly successful – using breadmaking kit from woollies with 4×250 gm packs and yeast sachets for each. One pack just … 0054hrs 12 Feb 2005 UTC 45’35”S 143’15”W Map Ref 59 3129nm Now past half way in all distance categories – Sydney and Hobart. Still about 1600 miles and a lot of water and time before we get to the Pacific high off the Chilean coast and can dive south to … 0325hrs 16 Feb 2005 UTC 46’19”S 131’43”W Map Ref 66 3696nm I’ve been asked what the weather is like down here. We are in the South Pacific Convergence ZoneInter Tropical Convergence Zone, also known as The Doldrums (SPCZ) where warm moist air out of the highs to the north mixes … 1010hrs 13 Apr 2005 UTC Map Ref 164 It’s the middle of the night and I’m sweating – send me down my silver threaded T shirt, Noreen! – it’s hot and humid, which, it seems to me, is a better reason for sweat than the dull fear that comes in … 1130hrs 28 Nov 2005 UTC 46’21”S 105’48”E Ref 596 Day 100 – big day – wind all over the ocean – we’ve done about one sail change every hour to keep Berri truckin towards that corner. Hard, cold difficult work and quite tiring. We ran the engine to give … We made it off the dock, with minimum fuss as planned. Headed up the harbour wnd out through the Heads, where we had HilaryAlex’s partner and Katherine’s mother and Kimbra waving from North Head, SJ at South Head and one or two ribs zooming around- oh and a kayaker, who … oh how I wish the oreo cookie monster would leave me alone!!! he hangs out shivering at the end of my bunk while I am off watch, desperately trying to ignore him, though its hard as he looks so blue and fluffy and unmonsterlike and pathetic, then when I come … Kimbra’s watch and we are almost as far north as we need to go to round the northernmost point of Somerset Island, just east of Cunningham Bay. So – in an hour or so we should be able to head east, then south east. No more ice visible, Cornwallis just … Me. I seem to be the serious one, as usual. We actually had to go to about 75N to get around a big ice field in Lancaster Sound – sadly, freezing rain and big icebergs meant we were just not able to make it to BeecheyBeechey Island is an island … |
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