Date/time: December 7, 2005 Position @ noon: 15*55' S & 005*43' W noon to 07:00 95 nm Avg. speed: 5.9 knots Course bearing: at anchor Sea state & wx: 2' seas, partly cloudy, 8 kt wind from SSE, headwind 30* to port, water temp. 23 C Crew: Ben, Brad, & Kevin Days: 15 days out of Cape Verdes Goal: fetch St. Helena at 07:00 today when we dropped anchor To go: 0 nm Remarks: From Cape Verdes it was 2136 nm in 359.6 hours and used 1725 liters of fuel with significant headwind 4.8 LPH and 1.24 MPL. We are 13,120 n-miles from Dunvegan. Jamestown is one street, very unique, we love it. Very nice people. Uniformed school girls with an instructor were singing Jingle Bells in the greatest of Christmas spirit. We really enjoyed it and got a video of some of it. Reminded me of 1960 in Barcelona, Tom Gass & I were in an old cobble stone floored bar on a side street and watched young kids running in to watch "Sargent Preston of the Yukon" mushing his dogs in Spanish on TV. ------------------------------------------------------------------- This email was delivered by an HF private coast station in the Maritime Mobile Radio Service, operated by the SailMail Association, a non-profit association of yacht owners. For more information on this service or on the SailMail Association, please see the web site at: http://www.sailmail.com -- Ben Gray Idlewild Custom Buehler 55 Home port: Dunvegan, Alberta http://www.idlewildexpedition.ca/ http://dieselducks.com/Idelwild.html http://www.trawlersandtrawlering.com/