Namibia to St. Helena……Day 8 June 1st, written the morning of June 2nd, 2013 (Western Hemisphere) Time: On GMT/UTC What a different sail we\’ve had the last 24 hours. It started fairly light wind-ish again yesterday and steadily picked up during the day. We had one reef and the genoa out to weather on the […]
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2013/06/02 08:05 LATITUDE: 17-04.42S LONGITUDE: 004-45.13W COURSE: 331T SPEED: 8.7 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 28 WIND_DIR: SE WAVE_HT: 0.5M WAVE_PER: 11 SWELL_DIR: SSE SWELL_HT: 3.8M SWELL_PER: 11 CLOUDS: 40% VISIBILITY: 12 BARO: 1022.9 TREND: 1 AIR_TEMP: 21.1C SEA_TEMP: 22.8C COMMENT: Beach House -EN ROUTE – Namibia to St. Helena Island – Day 8
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2013/06/01 08:10 LATITUDE: 18-40.01S LONGITUDE: 002-17.89W COURSE: 276T SPEED: 7.3 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 23 WIND_DIR: ESE WAVE_HT: 0.3M WAVE_PER: 11 SWELL_DIR: SW SWELL_HT: 2.8M SWELL_PER: 11 CLOUDS: 30% VISIBILITY: 12 BARO: 1021.2 TREND: 1 AIR_TEMP: 24.4C SEA_TEMP: 21.7C COMMENT: Beach House -EN ROUTE-Namibia to St. Helena Island – Day 7 – 170
Namibia to St. Helena…..Day 7 May 31st, written the morning of June 1st, 2013 (WESTERN HEMISPHERE) Time: GMT/UTC Good morning everyone! It\’s blowy outside. Yesterday, the winds were again light and we flew our full main, big reacher to starboard and genoa to port on the spinnaker pole. The winds were supposed to be coming
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2013/05/31 08:08 LATITUDE: 19-43.30S LONGITUDE: 000-25.96E COURSE: 325T SPEED: 5.5 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 12 WIND_DIR: SSW WAVE_HT: 0.1M WAVE_PER: 10 SWELL_DIR: SW SWELL_HT: 3.0M SWELL_PER: 11 CLOUDS: 90% VISIBILITY: 12 BARO: 1022.3 TREND: 2 AIR_TEMP: 18.9C SEA_TEMP: 21.7C COMMENT: Beach House -EN ROUTE – Namibia to St. Helena Island – Day 6
Nambiia to St. Helena……Day 6 May 30th, written the morning of May 31st, 2013 (Eastern Hemisphere…for about 5 more hours!!!) Time: GMT! Miss Piggy\’s new light air trick: Yesterday started off with light winds which finally picked up to 14 knots. This allowed us to sail again, but not more than about a 6.2 knot
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2013/05/30 07:22 LATITUDE: 20-47.26S LONGITUDE: 002-52.17E COURSE: 296T SPEED: 7.7 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 16 WIND_DIR: S WAVE_HT: 0.2M WAVE_PER: 8 SWELL_DIR: SW SWELL_HT: 3.0M SWELL_PER: 8 CLOUDS: 70% VISIBILITY: 12 BARO: 1021.6 TREND: 1 AIR_TEMP: 21.7C SEA_TEMP: 21.1C COMMENT: Beach House -EN ROUTE – Namibia to St. Helena Island – Day 5
Nambia to St. Helena….Day 5 May 29th, written morning of May 30th, 2013 (Eastern Hemisphere, but not for long!) +1GMT Just as I sent yesterdays blog, the wind shifted back to the south and came up at 12 knots. We set the full main and reacher and had a lovely day sail. Just before dark,
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2013/05/29 07:20 LATITUDE: 21-59.73S LONGITUDE: 005-28.79E COURSE: 298T SPEED: 7.0 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 10 WIND_DIR: SW WAVE_HT: 0.1M WAVE_PER: 7 SWELL_DIR: SW SWELL_HT: 2.5M SWELL_PER: 7 CLOUDS: 75% VISIBILITY: 12 BARO: 1019.9 TREND: 1 AIR_TEMP: 21.1C SEA_TEMP: 20.0C COMMENT: Beach House -EN ROUTE- Namibia to St. Helena Island – Day 4-162nm Good
Namibia to St. Helena….Day 4 May 28th, written the morning of the 29th, 2013 (Eastern Hemisphere – but not for long!) +1GMT Yesterday morning found us having had a slow night\’s passage and the winds were fading and shifting to the east southeast. This meant gybing and sailing slow or just sailing slow toward Antarctica..!
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