Daily Log for the Minnow

Monday, November 28, 2005
late night

Today we finished baling the water out of the front hold and started drying stuff. By this afternoon, everything was back to
normal. We even got most of the instruments back on line. Apparently there is a short, or bad connection, or broken instrument
somewhere in the seatalk network. Everything is fine now except one of the external autopilots and instruments in one of the
bedrooms.

Then the gennaker ripped in two. That was pretty exciting. We took it down, bagged it, and dropped it into the formerly flooded
hold. We still have a smaller foresail called a solent, and three spinnakers, but that will cost us some time. Apparently the
gennaker bottom chafed on a cable at the front of the boat and began the rip there.

Jim caught a dolphin today. The movie tonight was, "Brother, Where Art Thou." It is a fine motion picture. I think I shall play You
Are My Sunshine about 3:00 am on the baritone.

I just got the last weather faxes from New Orleans, and I dialed around on the radio to see if there were any others. Now I'm
picking up one from Hawaii. That's not very useful to us at the moment, but it's pretty cool.

Water temperature is 84.3, air temperature about 80, and the wind is from 190 degrees at 10 knots. Mars is out, but the moon is not.

http://xpda.com/mars