311 Ship 13 departure Fremantle 27.5.2019

The last information was that leaving would be 600 but at 400, I heard the engine turn high and a look out of the window showed the first movement. In the evening, I had tried to establish forwarding from gmail to skyfile, but the link with a code of confirmation didn’t arrive there. I had seen that internet had not worked and hoped it would work when we leave. So, I went to the office, and at least could see that email in general worked, because I had got one from Doron, but no code. I went back to my PC and tried to send it again as long my phone still gets some signal from Fremantle, but it didn’t work. The signal became weaker and I gave up, turned off internet, hotspot, PC, pressed “flight mode” on the phone and had again a farewell from Australia, this time on digital level. It took me a while to fall asleep again, but at 6:45 my alarm woke me up for another day on the ship.
At noon, the captain told me that we should arrive on 1^st of June at noon – this would be on time! They had got that order from the company. I went up to the bridge to get more details and the Cadet told me that they go with 80% speed, ~18-19kn.
I calculate 30t fuel more, that is 12000$ additional costs every day, the distance seems to be something like 3000km and when we make 820km every day instead of 640km, we can save a whole day. Well, in the end it again depends on the space in the port, so there might be another delay, but the harbour is big enough that there should be space at least within some hours.
Today I worked on the container-video. The raw material was 50min and by sorting out useless and too blurry material, I could reduce it to 13min. in a next step, I try to reduce it to 7 or 8 minutes maximum, this can be even more time consuming than the first step. But after that my PC will have 20GB more space again, because after making a backup, I delete all original material.
After lunch, I was tired, made a Feldenkrais session and laid down for a while. Later, I realized that even on this long ship passage, time runs out in a few days! Besides the never-ending editing story and the continuous diary writing, I had some other work on my list, like Uganda preparations, and checking some discrepancies in the numbering of my blog entries (some numbers doubled, others missing).
In the evening, Gilhan, the cadet, brought back the gopro I had lent to him. He had made a long video of leaving Fremantle this night and I was surprised abought the quality of the recording at night – much better than with my normal camera, and also abought the film itself: Gilhan had made a time lapse video and I wonder how he managed to do that with an unknown camera and German settings.