Hi all,
Apologies for the delay in this post, blame the festive season. I'm still having a few problems with the Yotreps site support guys. We (Drina that is) are now back on the web site map outputs, however the summary database reports that I rely on are not reporting a position for since the 4th Dec...
Erich Brosell, whom some of you will know, (Erich raced his beautiful yacht 'Holger Danske' with friends on the Derwent and in the D'Entrecasteaux Channel South of Hobart with success against Drina during the Circumnavigation of Tasmania some years ago.) has posted his guess at the arrival time (ETA) for Drina at Puerto Montt. So I wondered if any other of you Navi-guessers on the list want to have a crack at Drina's ETA? There are no prizes, (other than bragging rights), if I get any guesses I'll post them as I get them. To start the game I'll post Erich's and my guesses here.
Erich Brosell = "I have marked the 7th of January, 2011 as ETA for DRINA in Puerto Montt"
PK = "0400UTC on the 8th January, 2011. I think Mike will wait for the right tide and have a look around before making the final entrance."
Oh! I won't tell Michael what the replies are until he's there.
So here's the latest form Drina.
"Dear Kerro,
It is 1900 local time and the sun is setting.Another few hrs of twilight to go, we have about 7 hrs of darkness at this latitude or did I tell you that already? We have had a good day sailing,
In the morning doing 8 knots plus with wind from the north and all sail set, wind still from the North and has lightened off so doing around 6 knots now.
The noon to noon was 165 miles, if we could keep this up we'd get our 1000 miles per week no trouble.
Position at 0500 UTC 42°57S 138°23W 2010-12-17 17, wind North at 12 knots, speed 6 knots COG 93T
bar 1022 temp 15.5 clear skys, little swell, 2795 miles to go.
We had our half way party last night, too bad you missed it. We did have two reefs
in all last night though...
Very little sea life at present and looks like we are catching up the high in front off us.
rgs Michael"
Paul Kerrigan
Strewth: Jan 2010Bathurst Harbour
Check Drina's latest position, click the link below.
http://shiptrak.org/?callsign=vj5319&filter=90
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