Day 41
27 April 2015
Alan
4:45 Monday Edt
Hey.
pos 4d 58 S = 101d 32 W
cog 260 sog 6.8 last 24hr run was 161 nm
we're 2239nm from Hiva Oa
We set our clock back 1 hr finally after being in this time zone about 2/3 of the way. We're at 101W and we'll enter the next time zone at 105W (15d of longitude per time zone; 15x24=360!). So for us it 2:45am now.
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We have 3 peppers left after that it's all cans except for onions and potatoes. We made a curry tonight which was good. And had zakuskies (sp?) of fried squid (1) and 2 sizable (sardine length) flying fish and several tiny ones. We watched a movie today "the visitor" that we had watched a long time ago. I've started east of eden because Nathaniel put it in my face! We cleaned the bilge of water and did some maintenance on the engine this morning. Our electricity set up is not great but it woks. On a sunny day the solar panels and the wind generator manage to just about take of our electrical loads: instruments, autopilot and occasional computer with a smidgen of entertainment here and there. At night we rack up the deficit in amp hrs that we offset with the engine. But the engine charging ability has gone down and I suspect the batteries are getting old but I'm not sure, so right now we're running the engine at idle for many hours to see if e can fully charge the batteries but it is a very slow process because they are only accepting 10 amps from the alternator and they're down 100 amp hr (so a min of 10hrs and even more because the acceptance rate will drop as they get charged). But we have plenty of fuel so we're ok
Alan