Ship’s Log: Volume 4, Cape Town, South Africa 21 Dec 1985 to Kerikeri, NZ 6 Dec 1986
Maker
Clark, Gerry (b.1927, d.1999)
Production date
1984-1988
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Written by Gerry Clark during the Totorore Expedition between 1983-86.
Supplementary entries from Chatham Islands Expedition, 4 November 1987 to 3 January 1988.
Entries by Gerry Clark include: Daily record of course, weather conditions and tides. Log covers 73 day period [19 April 1986 to 27 June 1986] from Heard Island to when Totorore capsized and was dismasted until reaching Freemantle, Australia, under jury rig.
Inclusions: photograph of TOTORORE, gas lamp instructions; two copies of instructions for Merlin 12 receiver and instructions for alarm/signals unit for tracking radio tagged seabirds; list of VHF/FM marine channels; Celestial navigation table, which are included in Gerry Clark collection as individual items.
Part of a large collection of written and audiovisual resources and equipment which belonged to Gerry Clark; most of which document his voyages in the Southern Ocean.
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