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April 26, 2002
Vessel Data
Status: Enroute from San Francisco, CA to Papeete, Tahiti
Latitude: 15-18.9N
Longitude: 130-806W
Distance: 271.5 miles
Total: 3060.3 miles
Gone: 1475.3 miles
To Go: 1585.1 miles
Current Speed: 11.3 kts.
Engine Setting: 75 RPM’s 1 engine
Weather
 Air Temperature: 74°F
Humidity: 21%
Wind: NE at 22 knots
Clouds: Stratocumulus / Altostratus
Sea Temperature: 79°F
Currents:
Water Depth:
Sunrise: 0617
Sunset: 1755
What weather!!!
Aboard the TSGB
Day 5
Daily Routine:
Today, the engineering student in charge of fuel transfer and control spent the morning calculating the amount of fuel used during the last 24-hour period. At 12 noon today, we had 1,027,702 gal. of fuel oil on the ship. Yesterday at noon, we had 1,033,561 gal. on board. During the past 24 hours, we used 5859 gal. of fuel oil. On the ship we measure the fuel oil in barrels, (bbls). 42 gals. in a barrel. Thus we used 140 bbls of fuel. During that 24-hour period, the ship traveled 271
nautical miles. (a nautical mile is a little longer than a statute mile.) By dividing the miles by the
barrels of fuel use, we can calculate the number of bbls. Or gallon per mile the ship used. We get
0.51 bbl/mile or about 22 gallon/mile. We watch our consumption very carefully in order that we are always sure that we will have enough fuel to finish the voyage.
Observations:
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Last night we had a very spectacular sunset and view of the 5 planets in line in the western sky.
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Last night we had a very spectacular sunset and view of the 5 planets in line in the western sky.
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