Setting off from Tonga to New Zealand
11 October 2017 | Vava
Alan/clear skies
Had a last lunch with jean-Claude et Francoise with some mousse au chocolat (home made).
Cleared at 3:30pm, off around 4:30pm and now it's 7:10pm and I'm settling down for the night (night lighting on, running lights on... and bag of chips open) but not too much: one island, reefs with breakers and shoals to clear in the next 30nm. So I have some alarms set (trip log, time). Of course the fact that the plotter doesn't work makes it kind of a pain; I could have it going since it's functional (just no display) but since I need the computer to run as well to serve as a plotter, the energy drain is high. So I just have the computer running and plot the GPS position from another GPS. It works fine. It's just more work, not as convenient and I have to be a bit more careful (hence the alarms)