Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Pacific Crossing Day 19

Good morning, although it will be likely evening by the time you get this update, as our SSB doesn't work well during day time hours.

After a treat of nutella pancakes for dinner, we had a a special visitor Tuesday evening. King Neptune, with a glued-on cotton ball beard, appeared, and we all became Shell Backs at longitude 129 degrees West. Kids champagne was popped, a message in the bottle was written and thrown overboard, the ocean got a liquid present too (no, not my wedding ring), and we all visit the Southern Hemisphere for the first time in our life.

About 750 nautical miles to go as of Wednesday morning, that's the distance how to crow flies. We are hoping to step on land in about a week. By that time we are ready to get rid of our plastic garbage as well. Per a friend's suggestion, we cut up all the plastic we have, put it in a large plastic water bottle, and keep it stored away in our small garbage bin. Well, yoghurts containers are a bit of a pain to cut, so we just leave these out and fill them with other plastics. We all saw the documentary Plastic Ocean in La Cruz, highly recommended, and it makes us even more aware of the plastic pollution we have created. On this trip we can report that we have seen only a few pieces of floating plastic, and we do our bit to keep it that way.

Onwards we go!
Jolanda signing off for the Bliss crew

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At 2019-Apr-10 16:41 UTC the position of Bliss was 01°16.43'S 129°14.17'W, with course of 191T (*T) and speed 6.3 knots. Wind speed 12.8 knots from 078T (*T)

2 comments:

  1. Love your posts and wish you all easy ssiling!

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  2. Hello Bliss crew, Congrats on equator crossing. Your journey reminds me of a life itself: good days and bad days. But we appreciate a good day because of a bad day. You guys are almost there. Wooow. What a journey! Look forward to next update. Mika

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