Monday 17th March 2008
Got the day number and date right this time! My excuse is that the ships clock is set to local daylight time, all the navigation instruments work and display UTC (Greenwich Mean Time) and displays the next day’s date currently 7 hours before it happens on board! This means that after 5.00pm in the afternoon the instruments show that it is tomorrow! I am clearly in a perpetual state of confusion on board, but this way, I know when it is time for Dinner! At least it keeps you all out there on your toes!
The BIG news is that we have our Parasailor up and flying, proudly displaying the World ARC logo but only seen the right way round to another boat. As we have not seen a single other vessel for 7 days there is no one likely to see it until we get close to the Marquesas, now 1689 miles away.1303 miles from Galapagos or 193 miles to half way!
Attached photo shows only part of the sail as it is so big – the sail silly!
Capt. Peter