Position 12 82 S, 127 32 E
C Cresswell here.
Wow, we are totally becalmed.
Its like doing a passage along the doldrums!
The sea is oily, featureless, and the horizon is a hard flat all around. It is so still, it is impossible to discern any movement. We seem to be suspended in space and time, even though we are motoring at 4.5 knots.
It was a beautiful sunrise, bright colours around the eastern quadrant of the horizon, coloured clouds.
It was a quiet, good night for sleeping away to the drone of the diesel.
It was a great dinner last night, when nachoes turned to burritos when we discovered the green bag was filled with potatoe chips, not corn chips.
But still, our lives will not be quite perfect until the wind fills in.
But
The forecast is for no wind today, no wind tomorrow, maybe the day after.... and even then it is forecast to be light and on the nose.
Having motored 32 hours already, we see fuel is going to be a problem. Bali is about 750 miles away and we are down about 200 liters of fuel, enough to run a little over three days or about 350 miles. Well before that, we will need to shut down to save fuel for charging and getting into harbour. Hope there is wind before then.......
Only 91 nautical miles yesterday. Second slowest day on this whole trip since San Francisco. This is going to be a very slow passage at this rate and it will now definitely end with a stop in Bali for fuel if not also Timor!
This is a good day for escaping into fiction.
C xiixixixixi
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