Crossing the Equator (and more on Amel Super Maramu sailboats)
Today may well be our last full day at sea on this crossing. It’s 9am and we just crossed 1 degree north of the equator which means we are 60 nautical miles from the imaginary line bisecting the globe into Northern and Southern halves. We’re motoring on a course of 238 degrees (so only 32 degrees south of west), so it will take us about 115 nm to get there but we’re barely hanging on to the Northern Hemisphere by a thread. Our toilets (aka heads) are all electric and don’t have much water in the bowls and what is there gets sucked straight down so we don’t get to test the changing of the rotation of the water around a drain (if that would work on a rocking and rolling sailboat anyway). We generally don’t put anything other than rinsed soap bubbles down the sinks as all of that water ends up in the grey water system (aka “the bilge”). The Amel’s have a great system where the toilets go to their own holding tanks which can be drained ou...
