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Location 41° 21S 89° 45W
Monday 11.05.2007
The Schooner Maggie B was at 41° 21S 89° 45W at noon on November 5th. We are making good time, 8.1 knots more or less directly for Puerto Montt. The wind is from the NW at 13-16. It is overcast with fog. Visibility is up and down from 100 meters to 1/2 mile.
We have come 4207 NM from Rangiroa and have 727 to go to Puerto Montt.
This has been a fairly mixed period, with the wind going up and down in strength and all around in direction. I wish that I could say that we are following a clever strategy with carefully defined tactics for dealing with this little high sliding out (the barometer is falling) and the strength of the low coming to bear, but we aren't. We are just taking the wind and waves as they come and doing our best to keep the boat going as much towards Puerto Montt as we can. In the last three weeks we have been almost completely on the port tack with the sheets almost nailed down. In the last day have jibed three times and even now Hannah (The Watch) is eager to go back to starboard. It "should" steady in from the south, but the wind hasn't gotten the message as yet.
All is well.
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