[password] D1nsdale
[status] :position 24 14S 155 09E
The sun roared up out of the mercury ocean this morning into a cloudless sky. No wind either. Been on the motor for an eternity (anything beyond 30mins motor is an eternity), coming up to 24 hours now and will continue for some time yet according to forecasts. We just crossed the line of seamounts sitting off the continent to the East, a second Great Dividing Range underwater. Seamounts matter to sailors. Will get to continental waters in about 13 hours. Lord Robert has fixed everything that might have required maintenance attention over the next decade and configured all software systems to operate at warp speed, and with correct times and dates. Our 15 year old mothballed, radar chart plotter is remounted and repurposed and flinging forth its freely flowing data like Billy Graham at an NRA convention. Plenty of reading getting done, which is a treat, but it does have a bit of a florid, flow-on affect on blog posting. Big last 24hours ahead, including non-stop gourmet cogitation, conflagration and mastication followed no doubt by intestinal castigation... to use up all the fresh food and there?s plenty of it, that Dutton bastard?s not getting any. Frontal system predicted for tonight with biggish winds (famine or feast!) and squally rain, southerly buster sort of thing, and then we?ll be in Bundy for breakfast! Or maybe second breakfast! (Yay, with real coffee...our machine broke) If we can eat after today?s excesses. All crew well and happy and looking forward to a foodie final frolic.

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