10 Oct StarrBlog – Life on Starr
Day 16
10/1900Z/0900Hawaii Time
21degrees 37N/149degrees 15W
DTG (Distance to Go) – 476nm
TTG (Time to Go) – 2.2days
We will arrive in Honolulu sometime Monday early afternoon; we should begin to show on Vessel Marine Traffic on Sunday.
LIFE ON STARR
24 hour-days become long, and if we are fortunate tedious. Don and I have always said that “a boring passage is a good passage”.
We each do a three-hour watch during the day, and a three-hour watch at night. My watch is from 0900-1200 and 2100-2400.
I LOVE my night watch; I love the silence with just the sound of the wind and waves and the boat moving through the water,
AND, if we are lucky, watching the gazillions of stars in the night sky.
Sharry
The four of us each stand 3 hour watches/ 3 on and 9 off. You might think we would be bored out of our skulls but you know what? We aren’t! We do fill in for whoever is on watch from time to time so that person can do engine room checks, cook a meal or whatever.
Don
Here are a few pictures that help tell our story:
Don talking on the Iridium phone
Don checking weather
Don fixing things
Sharry baking bread
Doug Cole cooking dinner
Doug MacQuarrie baked a pie
Don doing his morning exercises
DougCole doing engine check
Another fine dinner
End of Day
10/1900Z/0900Hawaii Time
21degrees 37N/149degrees 15W
DTG (Distance to Go) – 476nm
TTG (Time to Go) – 2.2days
We will arrive in Honolulu sometime Monday early afternoon; we should begin to show on Vessel Marine Traffic on Sunday.
LIFE ON STARR
24 hour-days become long, and if we are fortunate tedious. Don and I have always said that “a boring passage is a good passage”.
We each do a three-hour watch during the day, and a three-hour watch at night. My watch is from 0900-1200 and 2100-2400.
I LOVE my night watch; I love the silence with just the sound of the wind and waves and the boat moving through the water,
AND, if we are lucky, watching the gazillions of stars in the night sky.
Sharry
The four of us each stand 3 hour watches/ 3 on and 9 off. You might think we would be bored out of our skulls but you know what? We aren’t! We do fill in for whoever is on watch from time to time so that person can do engine room checks, cook a meal or whatever.
Don
Here are a few pictures that help tell our story:
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Dean Stabbert
Posted at 18:09h, 10 OctoberSUBJECT: RE: StarrBlog – Life on Starr
Thanks Aunty Sherri,
But Night watch or day- I just loved being out there and miss something terribly {as well as homesick} it’s tough being so far from home for so long- everyone forgets I exist.
Regards,
Dean H. Stabbert
Chris Clothier
Posted at 20:46h, 10 OctoberSUBJECT: RE: *** SPAM ***Starr Blog – Life on Starr
A warm aloha,
Looking forward to your arrival!!
Thanks for the heads up
Chris Clothier