Date/time: June 11, 2006, 12:00 local (24:00z) Position at noon: 47D15'N 153D26'E Noon to noon: 169 nm Avg. speed: 7.0 kts Miles to go: 419 miles to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Course bearing: 036D Sea state: E swells 5 to 7' Wx: Wind E, 5 to 10 kts, thick clouds & haze Water temp: 6.5D C Crew: Ben, Brad, Kevin & Kurt Remarks: Put 1 vane back in for 8 hours then it was glassy so out again. It cost us about 0.4 kts. We are ahead of schedule for arrival at P-K the morning of June 14, so speed isn't a problem at the moment. We always appreciate the moon and it is full now, but too much cloud cover. We have almost 16 hours of sunlight now, plus long twilight at both ends, so nights are better even with no moon. We have beautiful long swells from the east for a perfect sea. -- Ben Gray Idlewild Custom Buehler 55 powered by a 55-hp Kubota Home port: Dunvegan, Alberta http://www.idlewildexpedition.ca http://dieselducks.com/Idelwild.html http://www.trawlersandtrawlering.com http://www.kamchatkapeninsula.com/city.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky http://www.adventurephotographs.com/kamchatka/petropavlovsk/index.asp To follow Idlewild with Google Earth: http://tinyurl.com/ksnhg For the Trawler M/V JPEG version: http://tinyurl.com/ovdt7