{"id":2231,"date":"2026-01-18T15:55:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T15:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2026-01-18T16:09:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:09:54","slug":"check-in-january-18-2026-1600-utc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/18\/check-in-january-18-2026-1600-utc\/","title":{"rendered":"Check-in January 18, 2026; 16:00 UTC"},"content":{"rendered":"
Current Position: 8 40.088\u2019S 23 55.712\u2019W; Timezone: UTC-3; SOG: 5.2 kt; COG: 265; TWS: 18; TWD: 127; Current Speed (includes effect of surfing): 1.8 kt; Current Direction: 270; Distance to Waypoint (IFN, 300): 475 nm; Distance to Endpoint (Bridgetown): 2499 nm; Total Miles Sailed: 20,675 nm; Engine Hours: 414; Estimate Fuel: 60+8+50;
\nComments: it is 14:00 and I have finished all My chores (dinner, dishes, bathing, etc.). It seems strange to be done this \u201cearly\u201d, but I lost 3h and it would be 17:00 before I chanyged the time zone yesterday. Sunset is at 17:28 at 32.5W (Ilha de Fernando de Noronha). At 23.0W it should be at 16:50. The sun sat behind clouds. The PW route has me on a starboard tack until 21:00, then on a port tack for just 1h, which I of course will not do. As expected, I have had two ships pass my starboard about 40 nm N of me in the last couple of hours. I do not expect any more traffic overnight. I downloaded fresh data at 17:30 before going to sleep. There were no surprises. No traffic tonight. I am supposed to be on a port tack for a couple of hours, but I am not going to bother. The boat has been sailing well all day and I don\u2019t want to mess with it just before going to sleep. Worst case is I will head due N 15 nm. I set a timer for 2h and went to sleep at 17:50. I woke at 20:00 and went to the cockpit. It was wet (had been raining) and the wind was blowing 20. The boat was on course, but the speed had waken me. I went back to sleep, but was awaken 45m later because the wind had veered a bit and the boat was headed N. I adjusted the course to 340 in a near run. The SOG was still 5 in 18 kt. The wind is supposed to back a bit now until dawn. By 21:45 I was able to do 315 at 5. It is 2:00 and I downloaded data. Noticed the 5.80 racers started leaving today from St. Helena to Recife. They should cover the 1800 nm in about 2w (1st of February, a week before I get to Barbados). I also noticed the ARC rally is still in Walvis Bay, Namibia. Sunrise is at 5:10 at 32.5W (Ilha de Fernando de Noronha). At 23.25W it should be at 4:33. I woke at 4:15. It looked like the sun came up about 4:28, but it was behind clouds. There were dense clouds downwind, but few clouds upwind. The wind was 13-17 from 109, so I stayed in a starboard tack. I expect the wind to veer after the sun breaks through the clouds. The sun broke through the clouds at 4:45. I tacked to port at 7:20. I also calibrated the wind instruments as I have known for a long time the wind instruments were mounted a few degrees off center at the top of the mast. Basted upon the TWA on the starboard vs. port tack, the instrument is mounted 4.2 degrees counterclockwise from center. Some bad news \u2026 the instruments have started to fail periodically. It has only been since Tahiti that the instrument was replaced. It could be the wiring in the setter locker since I moved the cans around in there and the problem started while I was tacking. B&G has notoriously poor customer service, so it is probably not even work trying to get a replacement before I return to Mexico. Regarding another equipment outage, my iPhone\u2019s GPS stopped working for about an hour today. It was apparently an issue with the satellites. I broke out my iPad and charged it in case I need to use it for PredictWind and Navionics. It started to rain lightly at 11:00. The distance sailed towards IFN in the last 24h was 675-575=100 nm. The total distance sailed was 20675-20520=155 nm (155\/24=6.5 kt avg).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Current Position: 8 40.088\u2019S 23 55.712\u2019W; Timezone: UTC-3; SOG: 5.2 kt; COG: 265; TWS: 18; TWD: 127; Current Speed (includes effect of surfing): 1.8 kt; Current Direction: 270; Distance to Waypoint (IFN, 300): 475 nm; Distance to Endpoint (Bridgetown): 2499 nm; Total Miles Sailed: 20,675 nm; Engine Hours: 414; Estimate Fuel: 60+8+50; Comments: it is … <\/p>\n

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