davidellis underway 13 June 000
12 June 2009
Friends and Family; we're experiencing difficulty with the connection between our computer and our sat phone, screwing up our communication schedule with you, and with our weather router. We're working on getting the SSB SailMail on-line to back up, and we're trying to set up a situation where someone gets 2 calls a day from our sat phone, transcribes our weather report for Lee, our weather router, and relay that information to him, and give us back the latest from him. Also they would type out a quick report to this group, position, course, speed etc.
Other than communication frustrations, all is well. Weather was a little rough last night, but this morning other than rain, there's a bit of a swell from the south, rain and low clouds. On the other hand we're doing over 8 kts. Position: 29deg 12.6' N 129deg 56.6'E, COG 060.
last night we saw some other boat traffic -- both small fishing boats and larger coastal commercial boats; yesterday we saw almost no boat traffic.
watched a movie last night -- Sayanara, with Marlon Brando, which I thought would be cultrally appropriate.