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Jeanne Socrates departs Fremantle solo aboard her boat, bound for the Abrolhos Islands — a reef-strewn archipelago off Western Australia sometimes called the Indian Ocean's Galápagos — roughly 200 miles north.Watch The southernmost group, Belset, is her target.0:10 A catch-22 develops en route: sailing too slowly to hold course, she adds genoa to speed up, but then runs too fast and risks arriving at the reef in darkness.0:31 She deliberately reduces sail to slow down, but the boat stalls and can no longer make course at all.0:45 Her solution is to heave to just before midnight, back the headsail on port tack, shut the engine down, and sleep for a few hours before reassessing conditions and timing a daylight approach to the reef.1:05 She notes heaving to as a reliable default when a solo sailor faces an unresolved situation — safe as long as sea room is adequate and traffic is clear.1:42 The episode illustrates the timing problem specific to reef approaches: speed management over a 200-mile passage must account for arrival window, not just distance.

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