{"id":2058,"date":"2025-09-15T07:47:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2025-09-15T07:50:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:50:47","slug":"check-in-september-15-2025-800-utc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/check-in-september-15-2025-800-utc\/","title":{"rendered":"Check-in September 15, 2025; 8:00 UTC"},"content":{"rendered":"
Current Position: 11 59.755\u2019S 98 35.873\u2019E; Local Timezone: UTC+7; SOG: 5.1 kt; COG: 268; TWS: 19 kt; TWD: 116; Distance to Waypoint (Cocos, 269): 100; Total Miles Sailed: 11475 nm; Engine Hours: 247; Estimate Fuel: 60+12+50;
\nComments: I made water today. It has been awhile since I have had enough sunlight to do that. It is 15:00 and I am finally out of the thunderstorm warning area. The little pink squid was not getting any hits so I switched to a diving red and white fish-shaped plug, but after running that all day I didn\u2019t get any hits. There are fishing boats N or me. Perhaps this is not a fish-rich area. It is 16:00 and just before sunset the wind tends to die down, and today is no exception \u2026 12 kt and the boat speed has fallen to 4.8. Overnight, the wind is supposed to build to 20 with 25 gusts by morning. It will repeat tomorrow night. I am counting on this and the veering from 100 to 120 to allow me to continue on an approximate rhumb line. All I caught today fishing was plastic bags. I wonder if the unusual amount of plastic and other trash in the water has something to do with the poor fishing. Sunset was at 18:13 and I have 202 nm to go to the waypoint, which is just a few nm from the anchorage at Direction Island. At 2:30 the wind was blowing 17 with 20 gusts from 110 and the boat was averaging 5.8 kt on a course of 253 (262 is the waypoint). I got up at 6:00, just before sunrise. It was dark and I was unexpectedly surrounded by showers. The wind was blowing 17 from 129, probably affected by the storms. I have 143 nm to go and have done 74 nm in the mast 15h (4.9 nm\/h on). I am on track to arrive at the waypoint midday tomorrow. The seas are bigger, but not big, maybe 5\u2019, and are following. At 6:30 the boat rounded up and the wind dropped to 12, probably both due to the small weather disturbance in front of me. The GRIB was 15h old, so I downloaded a new one and long-range AIS. No real surprises regarding weather. I predict I will arrive at the waypoint midday tomorrow. I will encounter a couple of cargo ships today. I finished the last of the giant batch of oatmeal I prepped back in Dawin six weeks ago. I had a huge bag of stale walnuts that I couldn\u2019t bear to throw out, so I have tasted those walnuts every morning for a month and a half. I am very glad to be rid of it. Unfortunately, I am down to my last tangerine as well. Those have been a joy each morning. The first of the cargo ships passed 12 nm off my port quarter at 8:30. I will almost certainly have to jibe to the Cocos, but I will wait until tomorrow morning so I know exactly how far I need to travel NW. At 9:00 I landed the perfect-sized (2\u2019) Dorado, enough for three or so large meals. It was hooked using the homemade pot metal South African lure. You always know when you hook a Dorado \u2026 they love to leap in the air. It was small enough, so I landed it without slowing the boat down or using the gaff. By 9:30 it was filleted and in the fridge. The timing is perfect as I am down to my last portion of lamb curry. I will eat some for lunch and then make a nice celebratory meal when I arrive tomorrow. It is 10:00 and I no longer have the current working g with me \u2026 1.3 kt from 210 on the port now. It is however helping me stay on the rhumb line. The second ship showed up on the AIS at 10:30.it looks like it will pass behind me about 12:30. There was a little precipitation at 14:30. The distance sailed towards Cocos in the last 24h was 217-100=117 nm. The total distance sailed was 11475-11357=118 nm (118\/24=4.9 kt avg.). The discrepancy is due to the current.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Current Position: 11 59.755\u2019S 98 35.873\u2019E; Local Timezone: UTC+7; SOG: 5.1 kt; COG: 268; TWS: 19 kt; TWD: 116; Distance to Waypoint (Cocos, 269): 100; Total Miles Sailed: 11475 nm; Engine Hours: 247; Estimate Fuel: 60+12+50; Comments: I made water today. It has been awhile since I have had enough sunlight to do that. It … <\/p>\n

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