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Date Posted: - Tuesday - 01/ 4/11 - 2:47pm
Author: Gitano
Subject: Murre Update
In reply to: Randall via Gitano Vela (Bruce) 's message, "Greetings from Murre in Mexico" on - Thursday - 12/30/10 - 4:03pm

An update from Murre and Randall Reeves.
"happy new year, bruce.

am about 20 miles NW of cabo and about 10 miles offshore. even though the forecast called for no wind at all this leg from bahia magdelena, a prospect that made me sweat bullets because i had JUST enough fuel for the 160 miles, between the morning north wind and afternoon north westerlies, we've sailed about half.

the passing cruise ship, norwegian star, which i saw on ais at 11 miles reports i was a radar contact at 8 miles, good. a car carrier last leg said i wasn't coming up on radar at all, so i've been worried. i only have the small gobi reflector at the top of the mizzen.

and best of all, last night was the first night i went without longjohns and a double sweater.

on the subject of ships, got a bit of a scare overnight. my port nav light failed (again), and i turned on the anchor light so as to be seen by anything approaching that way--not regulation, but who cares. didn't expect anything from port as I thought we were too far in toward the coast. all but one previous passing ship has been well offshore of me. the anchor light is LED and severely impedes the vhf antenna effectiveness and thus the effectiveness of AIS. trade off's. then came on deck around 8pm to find a cruise ship on collision course and close enough i could make out his red/green bow lights. (not real close--several miles--but closer than any before.) i had been napping previously and had come on deck before my 30 minute alarm expired, just out of chance. grabbed the alarm to see where the ship would be when it did go off, and i would have had plenty of maneuvering room, but if i'd waited the extra ten minutes, i'd of had a heart attack once i came on deck. then, of course, i couldn't get the autopilot to disengage as we went screaming at the ship when it was half a mile off. so i got to have my heart attack anyway. went to 25 minute sleep intervals after that.

full sun now, though only 60 in the cabin.

hoping to be at anchor by sun down.

hope all's well.

RR"

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[> [> Sleep -- Doug Wilson, - Friday - 01/ 7/11 - 3:57pm

Holas Randall,
I arrived in Barra de Navidad this morning after my 32 day trip from La Paz to the Rivillagigedos and then here to Barra. About 800 miles.
I keep a kitchen timer, set it for 30 minutes, wake up, check things out, back to nap. You get used to it, I did the same on the way down from the US.
I recall you asking about fuel some time back, you do burn more down here in Mexico, but for this run the wind was in my favor, I only burned about 40 gallons.
Here for two weeks, then moving north to La Cruz de Huanacaxtle.


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[> [> [> Congrats on making southing -- Randall, Murre, M31, - Sunday - 01/16/11 - 9:50pm

Doug,

Congrats on your south passage.

Sorry I'll miss you... Am departing San Jose del Cabo tomorrow for Frailes and probably La Paz. Not sure I have time to go south, though did really want to see the Tres Marias Islands.

Take Care,

RR


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