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sy Timoneer

45m luxury ketch-rigged sailing superyacht

April 23, 2007 | Author admin

NOON. MONDAY 23RD APRIL 2007.
POSITION: 36 01N. 012 29W
DISTANCE TRAVELLED: 283 miles – 24hrs
WIND: North at 10 knots
WEATHER: Cloudy, fine and mainly clear, about 8 miles vis.
NEWS:
We are now right in the shipping lane of ships coming down the Portuguese coast from UK and northern Europe to the South and vice versa. We have 24 targets showing up on the AIS (Automatic Identification System) which displays any vessel within VHF range giving their name, size, destination and various other details. The ship is shown on our chart plotter which at the moment looks like we are crossing a marine highway like a scared rabbit trying to get to the other side of a busy road. The AIS works similar to the system used by air traffic control at airports and has recently become compulsory for the likes of us. We would normally not even know we were surrounded by all these vessels as we have only seen 3 of them all morning! One Japanese refridgeration ship was on collision course and altered to starboard passing about half a mile behind us. We spoke on VHF to another ship heading from Portugal to Puerto Rico. He normally runs between PR and Texas with cargo but had come to Portugal for the dry dock – a long way from home!
We have seen more porpoises but guess they must have eaten all the tuna as we have not caught anymore.
We are now just over 300 miles from Gib and expect to anchor there tomorrow evening, much to the excitement of all on board. = PHil

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