Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Goodbye Curaçao

20 knots of wind from the ENE and 78 miles to go to WNW. We averaged 170 nautical miles per day on our downwind crossing from Grenada to Bonaire so let's see how fast we'll make it this time. Hoping to arrive in Oranjenstad at least before sunset to avoid sketchy navigation through the channels in darkness. We always plan on arriving to new places and new countries in daylight but somehow we always seem to enter harbors and get into foreign anchorages when it's pitch black outside and that can sometimes be pretty nerve-racking. Our GPS is also a fairly unreliable unit (need a new one pronto) so we often rely only upon paper charts and eyeball navigation. The latter not so easy to do in complete darkness. At least we're up on time today.. 

8 comments:

Mandy said...

Good luck!

meghan silva said...

goodluck on the journey

http://meghansilva.blogspot.com

DAKOTA said...

Beautiful, as always, dear Taru!!!! Lots of love from NZ! XXX

sv nimbus said...

Hmm new wind vane, so that's your third crew member?

Lucy: Todays Favourite said...

I always love reading about your adventures :) haha great escapism :) x

Jonas Serrander said...

If you want a great GPS, try iNavX with Navionics vector charts. I use it myself and its super great!

Here are some links for more info:

http://www.fugawi.com/web/x-traverse/navionics_faq.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQB72uM1itQ

http://www.inavx.com/


Happy sailing!

/Jonas

World Tour Stories said...

sv nimbus: That's an old windvane which we had a while, as well as on our previous boat.

Elle Yatçılık said...

great info about gps navigation system.l used on my gulet ray marine also good.you can see here http://turkeyyachtcharter.org all my gulets has a navigation system,so usefull