YOTREPS: YES
TIME: 2013/05/19 07:29
LATITUDE: 32-07.97S
LONGITUDE: 016-31.42E
COURSE: 326T
SPEED: 6.8
MARINE: YES
WIND_SPEED: 7
WIND_DIR: SSE
WAVE_HT: 0.2M
WAVE_PER: 8
SWELL_DIR: SW
SWELL_HT: 2.8M
SWELL_PER: 8
CLOUDS: 20%
VISIBILITY: 15
BARO: 1016.9
AIR_TEMP: 18.9C
SEA_TEMP: 15.0C
COMMENT: Beach House -EN ROUTE -Luderitz, Namibia
We sailed all night in 10-15 knots of wind, but gave it up once we could no longer maintain 5 knots boat speed.
The swell is up due to big Southern Ocean storms, but fortunately, they are not near us! US Sailing Vessel \”OZ\”, Steve and Pat are about a half day ahead of us. We made first contact this morning with the SAM HAM Net which assists we boaters in weather across the Atlantic.
Once across the pond, we\’ll be able to get the Maritime Mobile Nets which will do the same from the other side. Basically, this will be an abbreviated version of the remote blog posts.
NOTE: They may not paginate properly on the home page until my web guru (he knows who he is!….))) makes sure it\’s working properly So, we\’re back to motoring for the moment, expect to be in Luderitz on Tuesday afternoon…. I think I hear a song?….:-)
KIT,
Scott and Nikki