26-27 July 2012

26/6/2012
Position 14:00 UTC -4 05 10.178N 081 27.499W
Progress is slow. Downloaded a new Grib chart - got to stop going westor we
will never get to Galapagos, so now pushing to get south of the equator when
we should be able to reach to Galapagos.
27/6/2012
Position 14:00 UTC -4 03 32.224N 082 21.789W
Passed Ilsa du Medpedlo around 03:30 about 10nm to port. At sun rise the
clouds conveniently cleared on the horizon and there we could see the twin
humps of the island about 33nm north of us. The starboard motor starting
surging so changed the fuel filter. Somewhere we picked up a lot of dirt.
We are having to motor using both engines as we are battling the current and
head winds. Sorry Ian we are using an awful lot of diesel. But we are
getting to the end of the ITCZ (dolrums) and then hopefully we will be
sailing.
Cheers
Chris