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Helen - Start day - 11



The practice at steering by compass alone came in useful last night. This time it was a real failure of all electronics caused by a network failure.

As on land that means either a real network failure or a piece of equipment that has failed and is corrupting the network. Two hours of playing Sherlock Holmes lead us to a faulty controller of the autopilot. Fortunately we have two, so with the rogue one disconnected, we continued our progress and had a restful night.

Today we have calm seas (for the Atlantic) and no wind worth speaking of. We are making steady progress towards Gran Canaria but Paul has promised me some more squalls on my watch which he seems to arrange every time he hands over to me!

Last night's event makes three in three days so we are confidently expecting no further events until St Lucia!!

Philip





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