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January 16, 2007
Sher to pedal to Djibouti
LOCATION: Mumbai, India
SEE WHERE WE ARE!
Longitude: N:18.92874°
Latitude: E: 072.83865°
Miles to Djibouti: 1,800
My old friend Sher Dhillon will pedal the boat with me to Djibouti. He plans to come out and join me next week to arrange last minute visas and get a crash course in the safety features of pedal boat Moksha, just in case I go over the side ;-)
The delay of a week is not ideal, as we're starting to push a little late into the weather window. But after learning from my friend Carl, a tugboat operator working in the oilfields off the west coast of Mumbai, that the wind was blowing 20-25 knots NNE, the extra pair of legs will serve well in keeping the boat from being swept south while I'm asleep. And there's ALOT of shipping on this leg, and the awful fate of our late friend Peter Bird, who was killed while rowing solo across the North Pacific in 1996 (presumed by a collision with some large vessel or timber floating in the water) is still as fresh in my mind as if it happened yesterday.
Posted on January 16, 2007 2:40 PM