Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Galapagos Trip - Land Ho!

Those words rang out aboard Emily Grace as land was sighted about 10AM this morning after 6 full days at sea. Moving at just 7 knots, we still didn't drop our anchor in Wreck Bay on the island of San Cristobal until 4 PM. Seeing land after almost a week sure was a grand feeling. All three crew members passed the scrutiny of King Neptune as we safely crossed the equator and he was satiated by the Champagne offered to him. Tom, Kim and Emily are now Shellbacks with full honors.

Some voyage statistics follow:
Total miles covered - 865 miles
Diesel fuel burned - 284
Freshwater made from seawater during passage - 400 gallons
Freshwater in tanks upon arrival at Galapagos - 350 gallons
Number of hourly ship log entries taken (including engine room checks) - 151
Home school lessons given in 6 days - 2
Number of days sea-sick - 0
Number of days we wished we had flown - 2
Number of flying fish landed on deck - 1
Number of squid landed on deck - 1
Number of movies watched - 4
Number of sailboats we left with that are behind us at sea - 6

Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers. We all need a good nights rest.

Posted Via SSB
Tom

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Congratulations, Kim, Emily and Tom. Still following you all the way and thrilled to see you made it safely to the Galapagos!
Phyllis and Dick

Bob said...

Congrats! Glad you made the passage safely! I love the more frequent updates via ssb, please keep it up. Enjoy the Galapagos!

Anonymous said...

Dear Emily
Glad you are finally at Galapagos.
Make sure you have your picture taken with the ducks with the blue feet, and send me the picture. I hope you all have some smooth water for awhile.
Miss you
Love Gram

Anonymous said...

Glad you are there!!! Also good to be able to see the progress without day's of silence. Stay safe!!
Pat

Linda and Corey said...

Congratulations on your arrival. We're enviously following your progress on the blog and the position report. Saw you listed in Latitude38 as part of the "Puddle Jumpers" group! We hope to follow in your wake one of these days so keep good notes!
Linda & Corey
M/V Live Wire II
(aka still "slimy pollywogs"