6. Crossing the Equator

Tuesday, 9 OCT 2012

For the past couple of days we have been sailing SSW close to the 165th West Meridian of longitude, and this morning around 3:00 am we crossed the equator into the Southern Hemisphere.

 

This was an opportunity for "boys and their toys". I have a personal locator beacon, brand name SPOT, which records GPS location and every 10 minutes transmits a fix up to a satellite which relays it to a web server so you can track where we are and where we have been. I only turn SPOT on from time to time, and the satellite coverage here in the middle of the pacific may not be very good, so until I get to an Internet connection ashore I don't know whether any of this is actually getting through. Anyway, I set SPOT up last night in a nice open place and let it run, so we may have a record of the ship's track as we crossed the equator.

The URL, if you would like to see the track, is

http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=06Zs9aknPRupnm05cUUS576ZMvYGKCUVk

There must be a simpler form of the URL, which I will post once we get online, but the above should work if you copy it and paste it into the address box of your web browser.

Paula sat out on the stern veranda, well back in the full shade, for several hours yesterday doing some sewing and learned the painful way about the hazards of bright sunlight reflected off the open water.

You can see how effective her sunglasses are!

Coming next: Pago Pago, American Samoa, on Thursday.

 

Posted from Tyler's iPad