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I am owned by Pauline and Mark Blasky. My hull was built at the Duncan Marine Yard in Taiwan and launched in Dec of 1980. It is a William Garden design based on the Pixie Design and called by Duncan Marine a Freedom 45. They are the fourth owners and have owned me the longest. They have done extensive refitting to me including replacing my entire deck structure and rig. My masts are roughly 10% taller than original and now are made of aluminium as opposed to the original wood ones, which, though pretty, were always problematic. You can read more about me under "MORE ABOUT SARI TIMUR"

June 19, 2015

Next Time Zone Yesterday


Position N 49 d 48.413
        E 165 d 00.991

As we all learned in grade school the planet we live on is a spinning orb revolving around the sun.  As it is spinning and thus facing the sun at different aspects at different times each revolution is broken down into 24 hours.  To make it simple then the Earth has 24 time zones.  The reference time zone is based out of Greenwich, England and for every 15 degrees of longitude one moves east or west there is a time zone change.  If one moves east the time keeps increasing and if one moves west it decrease.  Halfway around the world from Greenwich is the International Date Line.  As one crosses it one either gains or loses a day depending in which direction.  We have just crossed 165 degrees East so our next time zone would be 180 or the International Dateline.  However as is often the case man interferes with things natural and time is not immune.  If one looks at time zone charts they do not exactly follow longitudinal lines but weave in and around population centers.  No one lives in this part of Alaska yet here is where one of the largest variances lay.  We will actually cross the IDL before we reach Attu but technically we should not cross it until after we pass Kishka.

Anyway this crew is still on Japan Standard time until we land in Attu so it is all irrelevant anyway.  But thanks for listening!

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