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| Day 100 |
15 July 2000 |
| Aru Sea |
| "100 Day Statistics" |
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Captain's Journal
Day 100
Duyfken
Lat: 4 45 S, Long: 136 10 E
Days at sea: 71
Days in harbour: 29
Hours on passage: 1458.1
Under sail: 1078.5 hours (74%)
Under power: 379.6 hours (26%)
Hours on watch: 881 per person
Hours on helm: 210 per person
Hours on lookout: 239 per person
Hours of sleep: 747 per person
Meals cooked: 3318
Number of tacks: 29
Number of times wearing ship: 14
Weighed anchor: 20 times
Hoisted topsails: 99 times
Furled topsails: 59 times
Weather observations sent to Met Bureau: 138
Craypots caught on props: 3
Fish caught: 8
Safety drills: 10
Sea buckets (canvas) made on board: 4
Sea buckets lost overboard: 4
Sea buckets recovered: 1
Food consumed:
Rice: 65kg
Lentils: 10kg
Canned tomatoes: 45kg
Limes: 1 sack
Canned fruit: 85kg
Coffee beans: 7kg
Weetbix: 25kg
Muesli: 25kg
Bread Baked: 284 loaves
Diesel consumed: 5400 litres
Sewage/sullage pumped overboard: 68 250 litres
Soap used: 10 cakes. (Only dirty people need to wash)
Heads (toilets) cleaned: 194 times
Fresh water used: 21 960 litres
Rotations of propellers: 2 062 000 (approx.)
Number of waves encountered: 15 336 283 (approx.)
Hammock oscillations: ditto
Total length of anchor cable hauled in by hand: 3000 metres (3
kilometres)
Amount of time 1st mate spent ashore: 31 hours
Bilge pump strokes: 8100
Snores emanating from hold: 2 129 600
Snores emanating from 1st mate's and master's cabin: nil (this
figure supplied by master and disputed by some of the crew)
Satellite telex messages sent: 421 (including this one)
Messages received: 162
Chocolate Mooses consumed: 1 (For lunch today, celebrating 100
days. The packaging suggested it would serve 48 people, but 13
managed to finish it off.)
With assistance from Nicole Gardner, ship's statistician and OIC
useless information.
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Peter Manthorpe
Master
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