Day 6 - At Sea - Jan 8

 

Day 6 – At Sea (Sunday 2012-01-08)

At sea off the coast of Mexico

Here is our current position as of 2012-01-08 / 11:27 CST / 17:27 GMT.

GPS WGS84 Base for reference

15.18.567N

097.31.220W

Moving between WP6 and WP7 on their GPS NAV System

Off of Rajos de Chila by about 80km

Speed: 19knots

Course: 114.3 degrees

Water Depth: 3790ft over Middle American Trench

There is a flat screen 35” monitor on the Palm Court, which reproduces the Bridges GPS Navigation system, so I am using this for my location reports.

Around 3pm, we overtook a single mast sail boat heading South as well, reminds me of sailing with my Father some years past.

Later in the afternoon was the 3:30pm afternoon tea in the Palm Court and today's theme was Mozart, with so many people you could not hear the 4 piece orchestra, the tea was good and the cakes and pastries were out of this world, but that is what you would expect on a 6 star cruise line and a ship like the Crystal Symphony.

At 4:30pm, I went on a Galley Tour, the facility was spotless and it was very efficient in order to make meals for 800 passengers and 550 crew in 4 different restaurants, some of which operate 7/24 for the crew. There are 103 staff that work in food preparation and all of it is computerized from menus to the exact ingredients for each item served. They already have the next cruses food ordered so when we arrive in Miami they can load it abroad.

They have fresh water bunker tanks good for about 8 days, after that there are 2 desalinization systems to keep the fresh water level up.

The stats on food consumed is staggering, as is the 40,000 bottle wine collection, and I though I was doing a good job in keeping my 80 bottle cellar stocked, may need to expand this, to maybe 500 bottles, that is if I convert the darkroom over. The darkroom is planned to become a green screen video studio for ramping up video production.

Another sunset from our veranda with a glass of wine, what a way to spend ones time.

Tonight is Casual night on board, which I always look forward to, plus there is some interesting vegetarian items on tonight's menu as well.

Ken and Karen at sea on the Pacific Ocean just south of 13degrees.