Wednesday 2nd January, 2013
Pressure dropped to 992hPa and then steadied at 993 for most of the day, with overnight wind gusting to 30 knots easing to F5-6 and slowly to F4-5 by sunset.
In the Vendée Globe, Alex Thomson, on Hugo Boss, passed S of us today - just under 100 ml away! My plotter has several blue/white flags showing racers' positions, as I'm keeing tabs on them!
Sun shining a lot today, with some rain late afternoon, clearing before sunset to give nearly clear sky , wind from nearly astern - on starboard quarter. ... lighter wind now.
9.45pm Heard a bang earlier which I couldn't understand... As I was talking to Jane, NH7TZ, after PacSeaNet, heard a lot of noise on deck - went up - lower forward starboard shroud fitting to deck has broken and shroud end was swinging about - too dark to see properly now - must look to see how I can attach it to deck again .... Shroud is fine, it's the fitting that has gone... Not sure what I can do but conditions now are fairly easy, TG! Worrying though.....
24hr DMG at 5pm local time (2300GMT / CST in N.America): 117 n.ml. Cape Horn 571 n.ml. away and my waypoint, off the continental shelf, well S of C. Horn, was 595 n.ml. away. The nearest big island along the channels of the SW Chile coast is Isla Desolacion, 326 n.ml. away to E and the W entrance to Magellan Strait is 330 n.ml. away, just to its N.
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For my positions, see:
www.svnereida.com - 'Travels' - "Where is 'Nereida'?"
http://www.exactearth.com/media-centre/recent-ship-tracks/tracking-nereida/
http://oceantracker.net?event=nereida