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Timshel - Cape Town to St Helena day 11



I seem to have lost count of the days a bit, something to do with sailing onward over an empty ocean. Yesterday morning SSB sked there was a plea for help from Pinta - her fuel is contaminated with seawater (?0) and he needs someone to give hi some cans of diesel in order to run his generator for electricity. Looking at the positions Timshel is about 80 nm west of Pinta and Airpower is about 88 nm SE i. directly behind on the course. Timshel does not have a lot of fuel but can spare a 20 L can, Airpower (a catamaran) has a lot more. So Timshel agrees to head more west to try to intercept Pinta and Airpower agrees to try to catch up. It became obvious that Pinta as going to need to slow down to allow Airpower to get closer to her. So that is why our course has deviated somewhat. Now sailing in bright moonlight and trying to get another position update so that we can find Pinta.

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