YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2013/07/21 12:20 LATITUDE: 06-12.79N LONGITUDE: 055-15.80W COURSE: 305T SPEED: 6.4 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 14 WIND_DIR: 133T WAVE_HT: 0.0M WAVE_PER: 0 SWELL_DIR: ESE SWELL_HT: 1.0M SWELL_PER: 8 CLOUDS: 90% VISIBILITY: 10 BARO: 1017.2 TREND: 1 AIR_TEMP: 27.8C SEA_TEMP: 27.8C COMMENT: Beach House -EN ROUTE- Suriname to Georgetown, Guyana (Former British Guyana) This morning […]
Space…the final frontier!….. July 20th, 2013 Time: -3 on GMT Happy 44th anniversary of the first walk on the moon! It was 44 years ago today that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took that first step. We were indeed able to get in to the Space Center tour yesterday. Despite the long waiting list, only
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2013/07/20 12:16 LATITUDE: 05-20.62N LONGITUDE: 052-36.32W COURSE: 320T SPEED: 8.4 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 7 WIND_DIR: ESE WAVE_HT: 0.0M WAVE_PER: 0 SWELL_DIR: ESE SWELL_HT: 1.0M SWELL_PER: 8 CLOUDS: 35% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1016.5 TREND: 1 AIR_TEMP: 31.1C SEA_TEMP: 27.8C COMMENT: Beach House -EN ROUTE – Korou, French Guyana to Paramaribo, Suriname We did
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2013/07/18 17:43 LATITUDE: 05-08.84N LONGITUDE: 052-38.74W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 6 WIND_DIR: SE CLOUDS: 50% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1013.9 TREND: -1 AIR_TEMP: 27.8C COMMENT: Beach House -ANCHORED – Korou – Korou River, French Guyana We went for the self guided walk on Ille Royal and saw the cells of the infamous prison. We
Cayenne to Ille de Salut (Devil\’s Island)….. July 19th, 2013 – Time: -3 on GMT We were able to rent a car in Cayenne and a very nice young guy who spoke fluent English (originally from Guiana ex: Brit Colony) gave us a bit of tour of the town. Andre brought us to the Tourist
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2013/07/17 17:35 LATITUDE: 05-17.11N LONGITUDE: 052-35.33W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 5 WIND_DIR: SE CLOUDS: 10% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1016.1 TREND: -1 AIR_TEMP: 34.4C COMMENT: Beach House -ANCHORED – Ille Royal at Ille de Salut. – French Guyana We are essentially anchored at the infamous site of \”Devil\’s Island\” prison. It\’s only 100 yds
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2013/07/17 10:42 LATITUDE: 04-58.27N LONGITUDE: 052-10.77W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 5 WIND_DIR: E CLOUDS: 25% VISIBILITY: 10 BARO: 1016.4 AIR_TEMP: 25.0C COMMENT: Beach House -EN ROUTE- Ille Salut (DEVIL\’S ISLAND), French Guyana – Day sail north After two days in Cayenne, we\’re ready to keep moving north. As the Illes Salut are 10
Ariival at Cayenne, French Guyana….. July 14th 2013 – Time: -3 on GMT We motored yet again most of yesterday, teasing our record previous motor sail at 72 hours. Fortunately, with a few sailing attempts including yesterday afternoons few hour spinnaker run, we didn\’t break it! Late yesterday, we again tried to use the spinnaker
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2013/07/14 06:18 LATITUDE: 04-51.07N LONGITUDE: 052-16.97W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 1 WIND_DIR: SE CLOUDS: 85% VISIBILITY: 5 BARO: 1015.1 AIR_TEMP: 23.9C COMMENT: Beach House -ANCHORED – Cayenne, French Guyana. 4 days 18 hours It was another day of mostly motor. We sailed for a few hours and then the wind went on our
Forteleza, Brazil to Cayenne, French Guyana…..Day 5 July 13th, 2013 – Time -3 on GMT We got the current back yesterday and it really showed in the days run of 190 miles. All but 2 1/2 motoring! We did put the spinnaker up for a few hours, but the heading was really bad and the
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