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Daily Archives: May 23, 2014
Reports of Resurrection are a Bit Premature
The autopilot worked beautifully for about three hours, then right before dinner it coughed up an error message and stopped working. “Clutch is Overloaded” or some such nonsense. It then refused to engage in any and all calibration and configuration exercises, telling me to Check your wiring. What I am Read On..
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Halfway There…WITH an Autopilot! (Day 9)
And there was much rejoicing Today at around 1230 ship’s time (1730 UTC) we passed 1,500 miles traveled. This means we are about half way to the Marquesas! It also means we have now exceeded out longest distance at sea in a single stretch and are extending that figure every Read On..
