Monday, April 30, 2012

Departure

This is the "do not worry" post. 
Dear mother,
There isn't much internet out in the ocean, so probably I won't be posting or anything for a while.  But there is some internet!  Sometimes a ship might be passing which can post a comment to this posting.  If so, I will ask them to post my position.  So you can look for new comments occasionally.
I might try to stop at an island on the way, well, out of the way.  Isla Clarion is a little bit south.  There is a navy base there, maybe some internet.  And beautiful birds.  But that is weather and food and mood dependent. 
I'll see you on the other side!

11 comments:

Aimee Fertman said...

BON VOYAGE!!!!

T. Abe Lloyd said...

Have many folks been following the Pacific weather? I found a site with wind-speed forecasts (http://passageweather.com/). It looks to me like the winds are very light and so Christian's progress has probably been slow and will continue to be until he gets about 250-350 knots offshore.

Unknown said...

Have a great trip man!

T. Abe Lloyd said...

By my calculations, Christian is more than half way there and it looks like the weather has been holding steady. The forecast looks good too.

T. Abe Lloyd said...

My (some would say optimistic) predictions put you at about 1700 nautical miles into the trip. Hope you are doing well.

Anonymous said...

Looking foward to reading a post titled "Landfall".
You are much in our thoughts.
Fair winds,

~R

T. Abe Lloyd said...

I am so glad to hear you arrived!!! and look forward to hearing about the trip.

Matt said...

T. Abe- He made it? That would be terribly good news.

Matt said...

Update: Just talked to him on the phone, he made it! His computer is dead so may not see a post from him right away.

Aimee Fertman said...
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Aimee Fertman said...

Thanks, Matt, for the update. Congrats to Christian for making it!