I just received a phone call - from a mobile phone! The SaltyPaws had sailed into mobile phone range of Martinique. Only 16 NM to go to the bay where they will let down the anchor for the first time in 20 days. I'll jump the gun and call it "Atlantic crossing complete"!
Everyone was well, and some early comments included "Well, it was quite far" :)
See the usual maps below.
Oh, and, we clarified yesterday's mystery. The text message I received yesterday was send already two days ago! Because it arrived at the usual time I just expected it to be the daily update. So the SaltyPaws sent out 2 updates on the 21st, and none on the 22nd; of which the second one arrived almost exactly 24 hours too late. A strange coincidence! I must then have mixed up the times even further with other messages when I said it was 20 hours apart, because from these two texts below it is easy to see they were only 2 hours and 6 minutes apart. Things are always so clear in hindsight...
Received yesterday (22 Nov):
Lat+15.807416 Lon-055.687150 Alt -3 m (Fix age > 0 hrs) 21-Nov-2014 14:22:05 UTC
Received two days ago (21 Nov):
Lat+15.871200 Lon-055.467716 Alt -3 m (0s ago) 21-Nov-2014 12:06:34 UTC
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| Arrived! |
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