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Exody - Day 370 - Rhu Meridian and St Helena Landfall



At 03.12 this morning, by one definition at least we completed a circumnavigation, as we reached 4 degrees, 47 minutes west, the longitude of Rhu Marina on the Clyde 4350 miles north of our current position. We left home waters from there exactly 18 months and about 26,000 miles ago.

At 09.00 through the morning cloud we made out the steep bulk of St Helena 25 miles away and we are now sailing in these remote UK waters with just 12 miles to run to Jamestown. The texture and dramatic volcanic characteristics are now clear a few miles off in the bright sunshine with its top hat of puffy cloud and the visible scar of the new airport that will change the island's unique cachet for ever.

Peter (Skipper)


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