25 May, 07 – 21.48
15.5233N,52.5454W
24 hr progress: 21.3 Nautical Miles (1 nm = 1.85 km)
Distance left to Antigua (straight line): 514 Nautical Miles ( 951 km)
Distance completed: 2816 NM (5209 km)
Wave height: 10-12 ft, Winds: 25-30 knots NE, Bearing: 270-300 degrees.
The day turned out to be better than expected. Although it was raining heavily all day, high winds, close to 25 knots helped me get some more miles in. Quite a day for big fish as well. A few large orange and white fish swimming around the boat all day followed by a pod of around 30 dolphins that stopped by. Unfortunately, the dolphins arrived around sunset, and the poor lighting made it difficult to take very clear photos. But it was quite an honor to be rowing with a stunning sunset on one side of the boat and dolphins on the other.
Amongst tasks, I switched over to the secondary Argos satellite tracking beacon today as the primary one had been operational for more than 80 days and the batteries were starting to run out. In other news on board, the deck was starting to smell like a fish market after all the fish that landed on board over the past few days. I used the rain and surgical wash to scrub the assortment of fish scales, broken wings, dead fish off the deck. It looks much more respectable now.
I plan to have another go fixing the electric desalinator once the weather settles down, hopefully day after. The manually operated desalinator works fine, but its taking up valuable time at the oars.
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Secondary Argos satellite tracking beacon activated
Pod of Dolphins at sunset
Taken at 23.22 GMT
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