Sailing planning – navigating the boat.

To anyone interested, sailing is lots of efforts understanding how to plan navigation – establishing way points from Nautical charts, recording bearings and wind drifts. And you put those in the chart plotter – the boat electronics. Progress from way point to way point is recorded from the chart every 30 mins.

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All of this may not seem hard work, but it is sophisticated manuvering involving a skipper who has done this for last 50 years of 65 he has spent so far on Mother Earth. We will be nothing without our captain – Peter Roberts.

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Our next destination is an island called Siros – 42 Nt Miles from where we are as I type this. Siros is about 20 NM from Myconos – where we are headed for our day long stop before we finally head towards to Santorini.

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Chris, Mario & Bo have gone to visit temple. This will get the planned screwed up if they don’t show up by 11:00 am. We have 42 nMiles to go and that will take atleast 8 hours of sailing/motoring.

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