ships log
28th June 2010 08:00z
Location: offshore Ecuador
Sailing
Lat:1 15.320N
Long: 80 21.070W
Boat speed: 5.6
Boat heading: 158
Weather: grey
Temp: 0
Wind speed: 11
Wind direction: 233
The sea state coupled with the wind, being light and against us, makes for comical scenes watching each other trying to move about the boat down below. My bruises now have bruises. Spirits are still good. Fairly tired though. We try and do two ish hours on and two off. It is pretty flexi and sometimes we get a break of a few more. When on watch we use the watch commander, a little device that audibly alerts you to push a button - failure to do so sounds a deafening alarm. So the routine is to push the button and then scan a full 360 around the boat. Armed with this little device you can actually grab a few minutes of sleep comfortable in the knowledge that you will be awoken to perform your duties on watch.
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