Sir Cloudsley-Shovell

Its a good thing to have Compass roses on the Charts.

We need a "Distance travelled" note added if youre on a long voyage you really need to see how far you have gone.I am going to Curacao from St Johns and so far its taken 6 ingame "Days"!!!

I am using this Chart. http://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/historicals/preview/image/H01514sup-00-1881

Check this chart out. http://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/historicals/preview/image/H01514sup-00-1881

Any luck yet?

Underwater explorers in Madagascar say they have discovered treasure belonging to the notorious 17th-Century Scottish pirate William Kidd. A 50kg (7st 9lb) silver bar was brought to shore on Thursday on the island of Sainte Marie, from what is thought to be the wreck of the Adventure Galley. The bar was presented to Madagascar's president at a special ceremony. US explorer Barry Clifford says he believes there are many more such bars still in the wreck. Capt Kidd was first appointed by the British authorities to tackle piracy but later became a ruthless criminal and was executed in 1701. 'Scepticism' "Captain's Kidd's treasure is the stuff of legends. People have been looking for it for 300 years. To literally have it hit me on the head - I thought what the heck just happened to me. I really didn't expect this," Mr Clifford said. "There's more down there. I know the whole bottom of the cavity where I found the silver bar is filled with metal. It's too murky down there to see what metal, but my metal detector tells me there is metal on all sides." The team believes the bar, marked with what appears to be a letter S and a letter T, has its origins in 17th-Century Bolivia. It believes the ship it has found was built in England, however there is bound to be scepticism and calls for more proof that the bar was linked to Capt Kidd, our reporter says. One option would be to take samples of wood from the ship to analyse, he says. The location of the ship, thought to have sunk in 1698, has been known about for many years but the silver bar was only discovered earlier this week. Mr Clifford said that while diving in the wreck, his metal detector picked up signals but it was too muddy for him to see anything. UK ambassador to Madagascar Timothy Smart, who attended the ceremony, said he hoped that Mr Clifford's latest discovery would raise Madagascar's profile as a tourist destination.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-32621444 The plan is to exhibit the bars in a museum.

Great vid.nice to see the Crew in period costume.Is her compliment of Cannon and Swivel Guns made from Metal or Wood?

Alongside in Las Palmas!

She is now in Las Palmas harbour,almost alongside.

"How do you know he is a King?" "Cos he isnt covered in sheeeet!"

Approx 20 km off Las Palmas,course 180,speed 6.9 knts.

Interesting read. https://archive.org/details/navalchronicleco05londiala

Course 228, speed 6.2 knts,about 70 km north east of the most Northern of the canaries!

The above site has now become free to use.I have only just seen this so cant report back on content as yet. http://snr.org.uk/

Current course 208 deg,speed 7.7 knots!150 km ish from the Canaries.

Off the Morrocco coast,4.9 knts,Hdg 234.5 deg.

Ahh its showing 4.8 knots heading 169 degrees

It shows wind direction and wave height maturin,the wave height is colour coded with the scale on the bottom

Also the Weather Satellite doesnt look too bad either. http://www.sat24.com/eu?animation=true&ir=True

From this i found it seems that there are slight seas and the wind is off her starboard beam. http://www.oceanweather.com/data/

Charles Dance plays King Charles.

Almost ground to a halt,making less than 1 Knot.I wonder if they have problems?

She appears to making little headway over the last 18 hours. http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/oldshipid:180670/oldmmsi:228052600/olddate:lastknown#

I have done quite a bit of Sailing in my time.At school we had a 2 old RN boats, a Cutter and a Whaler.The Cutter was a lovely boat,she was built in 1935 and lasted untill 1977.While she was being lifted to go on a low loader for Maintainance the gunwhale parted company from the main Hull so she was condemned and burnt.In the RN i used to sail the Bo'sun Dinghy most weekends.I did have a trip on a Nicholson 55 but i didnt really enjoy it.

Any news?