SHIPS LOG: INTERESTING NIGHT
31 May 2010 | Between Galapagos and Marquesas
david
May 31 0130: SQUALL LINE off our starboard quarter - awakened by radar alarm-turned 15 plus degrees south(to out run it)thankfully left it behind 0200: had to charge engines-winds increasing-voltage dangerously low - autopilot and radar 0400: autopilot off(lost control of boat) 0600: (alarm) got up, boat just off wind-did wind 25kts overpower rudders? autopilot still engaged - boat back on course FAST 0630: tightened preventer,following seas and wind big