I asked Richard about sleep as well and about what RPM's he was running.
Rising crescent moon woke me. As all of a sudden I see an orange light dead ahead.
Seas have calmed a bit.
Large swell from the ne, but winds are light and bite backing to the sw.
I got good sleep, about 6 hours total.
I sleep on the pilot house bench facing forward, so anything like a light in front of me gets my heart going quick.
It's happened a bunch of times
Same rpms, but I won't go higher than 1600, as I did the second half, as I have less fuel reserve.
Passage making on a budget.
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Looks like a long line of showers running nw to se of me.
Large area rain to the west.
This must be the wave that was fcst to develop.
Hope I'm far enough east
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Dannc,
I asked Richard if he wanted your info. he said "Yes. That would be useful".
Can you send him a message through the message on Delorme? you can only send 160 characters but you can send multiple messages. No charges to him or you. If you can't I can cut and paste you info in your message.
I got some acknowledgement messages from Richard. He received my texts. Hopefully he was not asleep.
He says he only needs info from the 48 hour surface charts so that makes it a bit easier to send him the data.
Later,
Dan
I could not do it. No way I could go to sleep with it running like that. Then of course ultimately I'd collapse into sleep and sleep for way too long and who knows what. Just not my make up to single hand like that.
Ok, going to try not to worry about his sleep or his fuel. But my wife says I'll fail, that I'll still worry just because that's the way I am.
Hmm,,,, everybody here seems to agree that being drunk and boating is a bad thing. But boating while sleep deprived is.....almost heroic!?
Didn't Get Enough Sleep? You Might As Well Be Drunk - Forbes