Tracking Nereida

For over a month I've been following the blog (http://synereida.livejournal.com/) of Jeanne Socrates (http://www.svnereida.com/) as she attempts to sail solo and non stop from Victoria, B.C., round the Horn, and up to UK.  I am particularly interested because she is heading for the Horn at about the same time that I expect to next year, though she is taking the far offshore route rather than the coastal-hopping one that I am contemplating.  You can see her track at http://www.pangolin.co.nz/yotreps/tracker.php?ident=KC2IOV

Her experiences so far demonstrate the advantages of the "direct" offshore route: good weather and winds (so far), good progress (well over 100 nm a day), and in general hassle-free sailing.

In Jeanne's entry of Sunday 19 December she reported that her laptop died, but fortunately it was her older secondary machine and her primary machine is still functioning.   That validated my decision to set out with three laptops on board.