Travelling s/v Afrita: Southerly Direction
8/20/2010
Well, we are in Eureka Might be able to head to FtBragg tomorrow There is a small weather window Otherwise, final destination is the "bay area" tp look for work for the winter This was a shakedown cruise in the true sense of the word.
We found that we need not only new batteries, but more batteries If we want to go offshore we have to have enough for the autopilot and computer
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