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Hi All, We all kind of knew it was inevitable... once the computer cord showed signs of breakage... The computer cord is not working...I opened the cable...it is a coaxial cable...the outer sheath has some broken wires and is parted at places. I heard it crackle at one point... I don't know how it can short though as there is a cover to the inner wire between the inner wire and mesh sheath.. so... I don't know how to fix a coaxial cable like this... I guess I can open the whole thing up and see how it was originally connected to the plug...

I don't have any way to continue to blog as I have been doin. I sent an email to Sailblogs to get assistance and there was no response after several attempts...if anyone finds out...let me know ..I have a remote email address and subject line code..but it didn't work. I can not go direct from my phone's email without going through GMN..so. I tried to make it happen but the Sailblog help service never responded.

So.. as Bob was saying to me when he was having trouble keeping up with all the cc's on the emails...I was suppose to be sequestering away from all this 'communication' , I guess I will be able to thin it down...

Of course, I do have the Aurora phone, so I am not with emergent or ability to communicate and it provides for email to my phone which also has texting... I am down to email I get from my phone. So, I won't get the Grib files or Mikes charts..or maybe I can...I haven't tried to download a picture from phone but I know that I can not send pictures and doubt it will receive.

Really I will just be lacking the visuals. I will have Joan's Buoy weather,. and Bob McD, which is complete routing assistance, so an ace in the hole...until i get to Cape Horn.... Mike's eyes on the Navy charts with a email info on where troubles lay.

The radio is really not working well enough, now,. I did redo the ground on the backstay the other day and I have a bit more incoming...and will do the same to the connection on the deck...and under the deck... It may bring it to life again and I can get weather faxes, but was unsuccessful earlier. It is a total rebuild ICOM 710...the spare radio I brought...so I came prepared, but earlier, this radio also was intermittently having internal buzzing issues... so.

All is as it is. I am humbled. but I had a feeling this was going to happen...the equipment just isn't durable enough...I should have had a spare cord for the computer ...so many obvious things I 'should' have brought... without it to write... and for people to follow me ...will be hard.

I have asked Bob to post blog emails from my phone as a comments on the sailblog. I can't text very much so it won't be in story form...it will be information only. I won't be able to send pictures...and it will all have to be enough. I have no confidence that i will fix the plug, but i will open it up and see if I can rebuild it.

The blogs have been my mainstay to keep me writing the book out here... so I will have to pen a blog each day... and get it transcribed....

I am too worn out to be emotional ... so that is good I guess. It will change my journey again... and in the direction I had intended my journey to be going. My Delorme tracker is suffering as well from cord issues as was my phone earlier..phone has been working fine though now. I will sorely miss the Star pilot program for doing Celestial Navigation but I do have the handheld version and navigation tables 229 books with me, so will have get better at the paperwork. the HO 249 is on my computer...

So..I have been lazy, visuals graphics for weather...lots of communication or company and resources... and now it is going to be something different... I stll have the tracker of course..but I do want to CN... so.

First to fix the boom... It is a glorious day..the winds getting light and the rolling mountains now just a few rolling hills...

" Many of the most luminous gifts of ourlives arrive as complete surprises. A gift is the most beautiful of intrusions (and this is and intrusion). It arrives undeserved and unexpected. It comes ashore in our hearts carefully formed to fit exactly the shape of a hunger we might not even now we had. ..Every gift has an inner lamp that casts a new brightness over an udiscovered field of the heart. In this light we discover and bring to birth something new within us. "

Keepin On Sailin On Caring... And I am trusting that this very intrusion of losing the use of the computer..the break of the boom... the other incidences will be bearers of unexpected gifts that I came to sea to realize, but maybe would have not without these gifts. ...

I have been so blessed by doing these blogs each day and having all of your energy with me ...please do not stop watching. I will not try to create these blogs on my phone... but will be hand writing my blog each day to be published when I return... but Bob will post an update as a comment each day, as often as he can. My tracking from the Aurora will still be working and please keep praying for me...I have far to go though I am so much closer than when I began. I will miss the blogs...truly I have been inspired by your energy drawing my story through me... I will do my best to keep your being close to me as I continue to write to YOU... each one of you... as I sail.

So ... Onward Ho... Much love and biggest hugs Donna Do Donna Dee Gonna get around the world just little ole me.