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Farewell Galapagos Off to Polynesia! Entr'acte is now at sea. We departed the Galapagos on Thursday April 17, 2008 after a whirlwind one month visit. Because our time in the Galapagos was so severely limited our days were filled with playing the tourist and thus we just never had the time to sit and write a proper update for this wonderful place. We will be at sea for almost a month and hopefully that will provide some quiet time in which to write a proper description. This passage marks a virtual landmark in our lives, a culmination of the past thirty-one years which have been a long up- hill climb, first to build Entr'acte, then learn to sail her and year after year extend our horizons and experience to prepare for this one voyage. We feel like skiers that have herring-boned up a long, steep mountain and are now poised at the top for the incredible down-hill run all the way to Fiji. We think we are ready. Our next news will be from French Polynesia and Tahiti! OK, Here we go!
			Greetings from The Galapagos Entr'acte made landfall in the Galapagos after a delightful 9 days at sea. The passage was idyllic with light winds abeam and a full moon.


The Galapagos provide a rare opportunity to actually live in the wild with an incredible variety of diverse species of land and sea creatures which have been saved from extinction by the efforts of theGovernment of Ecuador and the Galapagos National Park.
			*Check back in a week or so after we have a chance to more fully explore this fascinating environment.*

Access Ship Track

Ship Track Position Reporter

You easily can follow Entr'acte's progress through the Ship Track position reporter. This is a free service of the Maritime Mobile Service Network, a dedicated group of HAM Radio enthusiasts that maintain a radio network for ships at sea. Through MMSN we have world-wideaccess to emergency communication, daily weather reports, and daily position reports or we can just take the opportunity to pass the time at sea by calling Net Control to just say "hello!"

When on a passage we file daily position reports over the high frequency radio to MMSN which they post on the Ship Track web site. Just click on the link above and you will be automatically connected to Entr'acte's personañal Ship Track page. There you can see our daily progress, or lack thereof! If you play with the zoom tool on that page, as you zoom in you will see a series of red dots which represent each individual position report(be careful, a little zoom gets you a lot). Place your cursor on a dot to see the time, date, our latitude, longitude and a brief description of the conditions on that day. You can also adjust the page to view specific lengths of time from one week, one month or all positions filed.

If there is no updated position report, it should not be viewed as a disaster. It could mean that we had very bad radio propagation that day, low battery power, laziness or bad weather. It might also mean that we are in a harbour and off the boat exploring or we are very busy having a grand time and just plain forgot!

You can track any vessel that files position reports. All you need is their radio call sign---Entr'acte's is KC2JBX--just go to the Ship Track home page, enter the appropriate radio call sign and off you go!

It's easy! Check it out!