Thursday, April 20, 2017
Position: 27.26 N, 153.37 W at 1:58 p.m Pacific Daylight Savings time.
This is what the wind conditions look like near Glenn (the small green circle in the middle) as of early this afternoon.
On the Pacific Seafarers Net roll call tonight, he’ll have his weather report read to him and instructions about how to activate the message feature of his Garmin InReach hand held device. With that in place, he’ll have 140 characters to work with. It’s not email but I’ll take it …short and sweet.
On the call tonight, he reported a boat speed of 7 knots and winds NW 15 knots holding steady. He sounded less tired and a lot more chipper.
There wasn’t time to fully explain how to use the message system tonight so if we don’t get any messages overnight, we’ll repeat the instructions tomorrow. We were able to have Peter read our family messages to him which he always appreciates.
And, it was nice to hear Barry Mitchell from Australia on the call with his mate Doug and I could also see that Cliff Gray from New Zealand was also listening in.
