Good morning!
We’re going along really well. Not very fast during the night, but between the nice light wind and the favourable current we’re making 6 knots on average. The passage is 310 miles and we’ve covered 150 so far. I’d call that halfway.
We had to motor a for a couple hours in the night when our speed dropped below 4 knots. We could have just bobbed slowly along but we have to make sure we arrive at Bawaen in daylight. The closer you get to your destination the less time there is available make up the miles.
Right now we should arrive between 9 in the morning and 2 in the afternoon tomorrow, but we keep an eye on it.
Squid boats at night. They are mostly anchored far apart so we just navigate past them.
On the right hand screen, you can see we are trundling along in shipping lanes. Thanks to AIS (Automatic Information System) we can see them on the chart plotter long before we have a visual (eye balls) on them and they can see us.
We are also using Dangerous Target Alerts. An alarm sounds, an alert comes on the screen and the target flashes red if there is vessel that may or may or not be or become a danger. It is wonderfully over cautious so there is no chance of anyone being surprised. It does look closer in real life but it is very obvious it will pass behind us by about 5 miles.
You can just see the ship triggering the alert in the distance out our the port side window.
At night we can also see the navigation lights of vessels around out - red and green port and starboard lights and a white light means you are looking at a vessels stern. An extra white light indicates a boat over a certain length, which I will refer to as ‘big’.
You also night see 3 vertical lights which indicate a vessel tug boat towing a barge. The barge may or may not be lit so we always give them a wide berth.
That’s all for now!
Nancy and Tim
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