Go West Yong Man
Position as of 03:00 UTC 11°07'N, 121°00'W
We spent last night heading south and this morning we decided to head due west to try and miss a predicted are of light winds. We had a hell of a ride today between 7-8 knots all day. OK 2 knots were current induced but who cares, we ate up the miles today. I am still trouble shooting the radio and think I may have found the fault. The wire that goes from the tuner to the backstay was quite corroded and after hacking off a foot or so, I did hook it back up. It worked a bit better but I suspect the entire length has been compromised. Unfortunately, I don't have an unused piece on board but I can cannibalize the wire from our shore power charging system that connects that to our starting battery. The shore power system can no longer be used anyways as it is a 110V system and we are no longer in the lands of 110V power systems. Tomorrow I'll change the line and see what happens. Hopefully that will solve the problem. I'm about at wits end with this. I've spent the better part of this crossing mucking about with the HF radio and I would like to get it sorted out. It takes so long to do anything while underway. Just inspecting, cleaning and re-installing the existing wire took me the better part of the day. The boat is moving around, you clip on, hang on with one hand and work with the other when on deck, all the while the boat is moving around like a mechanical bull ride. Then you come down below and go work in closed up spaces hat are hot and humid as you can't open hatches for fear of taking a wave on deck. It does pass the time however and when you do finish something, you get a feeling of accomplishment (at least until I turn the radio on and it STILL doesn't work properly).
There is still a lot of bird life around, we saw dolphins yesterday, and there's always the flying fish. At times you see whole schools of them skimming the surface in tight formation. I throw a few off deck that didn't quite understand that there was a boat in the way when they left the water. They aren't more than 3-5 inches long at most but quite interesting. I can't quite figure the evolutionary advantage of a flying fish bit perhaps they are there to make a bit of sport for the boobies and gulls.
We spent last night heading south and this morning we decided to head due west to try and miss a predicted are of light winds. We had a hell of a ride today between 7-8 knots all day. OK 2 knots were current induced but who cares, we ate up the miles today. I am still trouble shooting the radio and think I may have found the fault. The wire that goes from the tuner to the backstay was quite corroded and after hacking off a foot or so, I did hook it back up. It worked a bit better but I suspect the entire length has been compromised. Unfortunately, I don't have an unused piece on board but I can cannibalize the wire from our shore power charging system that connects that to our starting battery. The shore power system can no longer be used anyways as it is a 110V system and we are no longer in the lands of 110V power systems. Tomorrow I'll change the line and see what happens. Hopefully that will solve the problem. I'm about at wits end with this. I've spent the better part of this crossing mucking about with the HF radio and I would like to get it sorted out. It takes so long to do anything while underway. Just inspecting, cleaning and re-installing the existing wire took me the better part of the day. The boat is moving around, you clip on, hang on with one hand and work with the other when on deck, all the while the boat is moving around like a mechanical bull ride. Then you come down below and go work in closed up spaces hat are hot and humid as you can't open hatches for fear of taking a wave on deck. It does pass the time however and when you do finish something, you get a feeling of accomplishment (at least until I turn the radio on and it STILL doesn't work properly).
There is still a lot of bird life around, we saw dolphins yesterday, and there's always the flying fish. At times you see whole schools of them skimming the surface in tight formation. I throw a few off deck that didn't quite understand that there was a boat in the way when they left the water. They aren't more than 3-5 inches long at most but quite interesting. I can't quite figure the evolutionary advantage of a flying fish bit perhaps they are there to make a bit of sport for the boobies and gulls.
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1 Comments:
Gee, it sounds like you're having the time of your life Brian. It will give me a headache when i follow the same path unless i take care that all connections are sealed with liquid insulation tape. According to Dan it will eliminate most of those problems you talk about.
Stay on an even keel guys.
Andre
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