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well it's just so beautiful

now I love youí well good evening it's

just gone about six o'clock in the

evening and it is dark as dark out

tonight so we just had a quick meal and

Darrin's gone down for a snooze so I'm

on watch until about nine o'clock we do

three on three off so every three hours

we spot out someone tries to go and get

some sleep and the other ones on watch

so it's Dan's turn for sleep at the

moment

and yeah it's we are motoring we've been

motoring most of the afternoon

unfortunately it's been it's been okay

actually there's been no breeze

whatsoever the high is right over us at

the moment and then it will pass over us

tonight maybe tomorrow morning and then

I think we expect the breeze will kick

back in again

yeah so

I had a funny moment before actually

Venus I don't know if any of you ever

seen Venus but she's a very lovely

glowing bright light and she she's the

planet sort of an orangey hue and which

often to me looks like a ship's light

anyway she was in Venus was rising and

and I thought ah chip chip chip but no

it was actually Venus which is really

nice

she's guiding our way

well hello just checking in with you

makes about 1:30 in the morning

and I'm about halfway through my shift

and yeah it is

beautiful evening we have been blessed

with perfect conditions there is almost

no swell and we've got winds in the

north

about sort of 15 knots it's primo so

yeah we've just got a double reef main

and the hips of that and we're traveling

on along at about seven knots on a

bearing of about zero seven zero so we

are hitting directly for New Caledonia

and it's primo a little earlier on you

could see stars and the sky just look

terrific

however how many stars that are on this

planet do you don't have any stars

through our office planet I'd be curious

to know he does the whole sky just feel

it's just beautiful

morning

you ready for a watch I'm ready I think

that makes us tick I'm ready to get a

bit

looks like a nice day yeah bit more

cloud cover and well they've gotten

bigger but

it's a nice pretty sky though

yeah well the good sides are just for

the next few days we'll be laughing

okay bye I'll just go clean my tape and

I'll be ready good morning everyone

day three

check out the sunrise sunrise

she sighed

it's not so

that could

this whole time I've been searching for

the wrong thing

Jesus

got my chopping on for the melon apropos

many shoes

way to go

but it's a glorious morning this morning

we're hiking along at about 7 knots

and we've got the wind from the

northwest which is actually making a

really nice ride for us

got some big swells coming from behind

it's starting to build up a little bit

so that's alright we're trucking along

nicely

and in about sort of maybe another 100

miles we've got a big seam out and

coming so we're gonna see where we're

placed for that because

the sea level rises from depths of

thousands to about 400 so we don't want

to go it'll be quite humped up there

what could possibly be quite humped up

there and if the winds do strengthen we

do want to avoid that area so we're just

watching that one this morning but we'll

watch it during the course of the day

and see where this breeze takes us in

relation to that so we might have to

duck down and go around it because even

though it's sort of 400 metres deep when

it when it comes from several thousand

to four hundred the waves can hump up

quite a bit and if we've got strong wind

and swell behind us it could get quite

mucky so one to avoid

that's so good

feeling quite well-rested we had quite a

relaxing chill night last night so I

managed to get some good sleep anyway

I'm going to download the weather in a

minute and enjoy my morning smoothie

fighting for my

now

great beautiful

in a story

anybody fight for me

okay I made this ugly pumpkin soup the

other day and I I can't be bothered

getting the vacuum sealer here to make

up a proper vacuum sealing passage

because the package because I'm going to

put this in the freezer this is a nice

soup I'm gonna show you my vacuum I am

stealing a technique when I one call it

lazy people like me

okay bye

3 my you

you're a big sucker okay

it's the simple things that amuse us on

the average day at sea

she

so we are having an absolutely Korca day

it is just beautiful out here today I

was just trying to film for you guys the

ocean swell because the ocean swell is

around about two two and a half meters

at the moment and it's a really lovely

long swell and it gives us a really nice

smooth ride over there variants

traveling over them really nicely but

yeah they look some of them came quite

look quite daunting to the iron I was

trying to capture them for you but they

camera just doesn't do it justice

unfortunately you just have to take my

word for it yeah yeah we're traveling a

lovely it's just gone midday

I think Darren's done having another

little catch-up sleep and I'm gonna go

down fairly shortly because I'm hanging

behind but I just wanted to talk to you

about charting a few of you have asked

us questions about what charts we use

and we used avionics and see map and

open CBM and mix all depending on which

area we are in and we use a couple of

other

adding software for imagery but I'll

talk to you about that in another time

because when it's more appropriate so

yes so we're running our Navionics at

the moment and if you don't know like a

chart is basically like a roadmap for

the ocean and we're running electronic

charts and they will plot us with a GPS

fix as to where we are that's a really

basic overview and yeah the one thing

that I did want to talk to you about if

you are planning on doing ocean pesters

something that is quite important I mean

out here on the ocean you think there

wouldn't be anything to hit you think

there wouldn't be anything and it would

give you any trouble because this you

know Australia and that direction and

Ymir in that direction and not much in

between and actually that's quite wrong

if you zoom in really closely on the

chart you'll come across the areas

called sea mounts or table mounts and

they're basically areas where the ocean

at the moment we might be cruising over

the ocean where the depth is 10 or 20

thousand meters and being a seamount the

depth will come up to a thousand or two

thousand or even four hundred or even

forty meters and so if you can imagine

there's all this water passing across

the top of it and moving around the

seamount there's going to be an area of

quite current and area where the waves

or the ocean might push up because it's

sort of moving around something hope

that makes sense so that it's something

to watch out for and there have been

sadly some incidences that we've seen in

the last couple of years of people

riding up on reefs and it did come out

from one fellow he said that he didn't

have his chart zoomed in enough he just

presumed that there was clear water

underneath him

and unfortunately they lost their boats

so I wanted to talk to you about this

because it was really important and it's

how you have yours in spit and I'll show

you on the chart

okay so you just have to excuse the rock

and roll actually I might just grab my

glasses because I can't see okay first

rule of navigation is wear your glasses

radios so this is a chart an example of

a chart that's Australia and Brisbane

where we've just departed from and I'm

running a run line that goes straight to

Nomura and New Caledonia

so that basically tells me in a straight

line where I'm going where I'm aiming

and you can see that this is us plotted

their serían and we are about almost a

third of the way across so it's pretty

good we're doing pretty well sideswiped

by a wave varios so you see that that's

a fairly fairly good overview but it's

not a zoom level that you want to be

zoomed in on for safety purposes and if

you just see down here that says 200

nautical miles so

it shows you that you're quite far

zoomed out now if i zoom in on this map

you'll see we've down 250 nautical miles

and you'll see that little little lines

and entertain and donations are starting

to show up these could be reefs or sea

mounts like I was talking about so when

we going out on the Great Barrier Reef

or we're looking for a reef to snorkel

or dive we actually look for these areas

because if it's a certain type of area

it will actually have fish there and it

can prove to be really interesting

diving but for the purposes of this

discussion this is called a sea mount

and I'll just show you now that all

looks relatively normal but if i zoom in

you see the definition gets clearer and

clearer as we go so don't know if you

can see that but that's actually 46

meters so you would probably look at

that and go oh yeah let's go to 2,000

meter line around it I'll be okay but

when you zoom in it comes in 240 meters

in this area which is just no good

especially if the winds are strong and

it can hump up and be quite

uncomfortable so we're keeping an eye on

this and what we're going to do is so

right between the two not coming

anywhere near this because that's 40

meters but this area here is around

about 2,000 and we feel if we come

through tonight before the heavy winds

come in it should be reasonably okay to

passages right here yes I hope the hope

that proved quite interesting for you

guys I hope you understood what I was

talking about that makes sense let me

know in the comments if you have any

more questions I'll answer more if that

doesn't make sense at all

and yeah so yeah just a quite important

to have that that zone sit in the right

place just to avoid bumping into

anything or coming across some really

uncomfortable areas of starvation when

you can easily avoid them they said just

drop me a comment if you have any

questions and let me know what

channeling software you're using there's

anything out there that's a really

unique and cool that we should be their

hands on

rightio so I think I'm gonna go and

download the weather I think what next

weather update is do and I will be able

to see what's in store for us for the

next 12 to 24 hours so go and get that

sort of

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