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Topic: Bread making
By Alex on February 3, 2005, at 0704 UTC
Topic(s): Bread making, Clothing, Cooking, Party gear 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 … Continue reading
By Alex on February 7, 2005, at 2341 UTC
Topic(s): Bread making, Cooking, Food, Things that worked, Vegie garden 2341hrs 07 Feb 2005 UTC 47’05”S 155’08”W Map Ref 51 2618nm
Specially lumpy night – 25-30kt all night and we are now getting a SW swell of about 8 – 10 metres with something like a 200 m wavelength so it’s not too vicious when they come singly. Standing at … Continue reading
By Alex on February 12, 2005, at 0054 UTC
Topic(s): Bread making, Clothing, Communications, Turbine, Watermaker 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 … Continue reading
By Alex on March 5, 2005, at 0105 UTC
Topic(s): Bread making, Clouds, Food, Supplies & Storage Sitrep: 0105hrs 05 Mar 2005 UTC 54’49”S 090’11”W Map Ref 99
I don’t know whether you will ever read this as it seems there may be a problem with the sailmailSailmail is the system that Berrimilla uses for email communication. It is a non-profit association of yacht owners operating a … Continue reading
By Alex on September 4, 2005, at 0900 UTC
Topic(s): Bread making, Meals 0900hrs 04 Sep 2005 UTC 24’29”N 023’22”W Ref 329 DB: 130,11601 (GPS 137) so another goodish day. Really soupy haze – sun came up white, first sighting about an hour after sunrise, through the murk. Looks like convergence zoneInter Tropical Convergence Zone, also known as The Doldrums conditions but we’re not there yet. Looking at the 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., there’s a low forming over the Cape Verdes about 500 miles ahead – this is where the hurricanes are born, as big thunderstorms, which then set off west across the Atlantic and get bigger. … Continue reading
By Alex on October 25, 2005, at 2200 UTC
Topic(s): Bread making, Liferaft 2200hrs 25 Oct 2005 UTC 37’05”S 018’36”E Ref 486 That’s one spectacularly inventive ExaminerShe who asks awkward questions of the crew and tests them with difficult tasks. we’ve been allocated. She certainly stimulates the reflexes – we are now hove to, not in a gale but in a pretend zephyr that is just enough to keep the headsail backed in a very sloppy and confused bit of ocean. Quite impossible to sail – Berri rolls and gyrates so much in the slop that it’s futile even to try. So the barn doorMetaphor for whatever we were aiming at. Derived from the saying “Couldn’t hit a barn door at five paces” used to describe anyone who can’t shoot straight. is still firmly closed 66 miles ahead of us and we ain’t a goin’ anywheres. … Continue reading
By Alex on October 28, 2005, at 0837 UTC
Topic(s): Albatrosses, Bread making, Supplies & Storage DB: dmgDistance Made Good; More here
103 – seems about right, given the adverse current and the overnight park. 69 days out, so in 2 days we will equal the Falklands – Falmouth leg in days, followed the next day by a Berrimilla record voyage. We have already sailed about 1000 miles further. … Continue reading
By Alex on November 20, 2005, at 0550 UTC
Topic(s): Birds, Bread making 0550hrs 20 Nov 2005 UTC 44’52”S 078’37”E Ref 569
I don’t know whether it’s worth writing these because I still dont know what is getting through on Satcom. Not easy writing into a black hole. We are almost in range of NSWNew South Wales. State in the East of … Continue reading
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