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Timshel - Galapagos to Marquesas Day 9



Still sailing across an empty sea, broad reach, white sails. Wind up and down a bit, rain at night but sunny day. Looked up the great circle course on the chart plotter, we do dip down below 10 deg S, would do it on he paper chart but we only have a Mercator projection. The interesting thing about the paper charts is that there are lines of magnetic variation marked as it changes as you go across the chart. At the moment we're at about 8deg 50' East, quite a contrast to the 15 deg West the other side of Panama and the Caribbean. In the UK the Variation has declined over the years we've head a boat from 8deg W down to virtually nothing so I guess it will go East there soon. Steve's trivia for today concerned Joshua Slocum sailing across the Pacific in the Spray, and meeting the widow of Robert Louis Stevenson (who attended the same school in Edinburgh as Steve, Steve being many years later of course). People were reporting finding squid on the deck as well as flying fish, apparently the Italians on Ocean bird cooked it! We filled up the solar/camp shower and attempted to get clean in the cockpit, it's a bit rolly, you'd be chucked around too much in the small Heads compartment down below. Only the cockpit doesn't have enough height under the bimini to get decent water flow so not ideal, but atmosphere on Timshel must be much improved.

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