Nearly There

I'm just a day out of Horta, the port I'm making for in the Azores. It's on the island of Faial, the westernmost island. There's a bigger port on Sao Miguel, but it's at the opposite end of the island chain.

It's been a busy voyage, but just routine business. I've been practicing my celestial navigation and keeping the Argo II shipshape. Everything is running great, except I've been getting weird readings from Mom's gravimeter. I think it's just buggy; I told her I think it needs a major software upgrade. The problem is it keeps reading different gravity levels.

I even sailed a zigzag course for 18 hours, back and forth while still making headway forward. The stupid thing keeps reading higher gravity along a straight line heading northwest-southeast. Mom says it can register the gravity of a seamount, but for these readings to make any sense there would have to be a neutronium pipe five hundred klicks long sitting on the ocean floor. I'm going to see if I can airfreight it back to her for repairs when I get to Horta.

My other pastime at sea has been the puzzle posted here. Something to do with Antarctica, where I'm going. Haven't figured it out yet.