E34 – DARWIN TO INDONESIA (PT 2/2)
Arriving in Saumlaki, Indonesia…
The second part of the crossing from Darwin to Saumlaki, Indonesia saw our Raymarine main GPS chart plotter fail to lock our GPS position even with it’s own internal GPS. So, I ended up using our backup tablet with Navionics installed. This works OK, but the screen is difficult to read in bright light and to keep it out of the weather, I had to mount it under the spray dodger.
The crossing itself was done in fairly light winds from the SE rarely getting above 12 knots. This was a bit unfortunate as the swell of close to 2m was coming from the E, pretty much beam on and out of proportion to the light winds. This meant we rolled quite a lot and the sails slapped way more than I’d like. Tan experienced sea sickness pretty much the entire trip 🙁
