YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2013/05/28 07:56 LATITUDE: 23-01.58S LONGITUDE: 008-00.21E COURSE: 274T SPEED: 5.7 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 12 WIND_DIR: SE WAVE_HT: 0.1M WAVE_PER: 7 SWELL_DIR: SSW SWELL_HT: 1.8M SWELL_PER: 7 CLOUDS: 50% VISIBILITY: 12 BARO: 1019.7 TREND: 1 AIR_TEMP: 21.1C SEA_TEMP: 19.4C COMMENT: Beach House -EN ROUTE – Namibia to St. Helena Island – Day 3-140nm […]
Namibia to St. Helena….Day 3 May 27th, morning of the 28th, 2013 (Eastern Hemisphere) +1 GMT Yesterday, we planned on gybing north, but the heading was taking to Angola!..NOT where we want to go. So we experimented with the big geneker (reacher) on the pole and tacked downwind a bit to play the shifts. We\’ve
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2013/05/27 07:19 LATITUDE: 23-52.55S LONGITUDE: 010-20.52E COURSE: 298T SPEED: 6.0 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 15 WIND_DIR: SSE WAVE_HT: 0.2M WAVE_PER: 7 SWELL_DIR: SSW SWELL_HT: 1.8M SWELL_PER: 7 CLOUDS: 100% VISIBILITY: 8 BARO: 1019.4 TREND: 1 AIR_TEMP: 17.8C SEA_TEMP: 17.8C COMMENT: Beach House -EN ROUTE – Namibia to St. Helena Island – Day 2
Namibia to St. Helena…Day 2 May 26th, written the morning of the 27th, 2013 (Eastern Hemisphere) +1 GMT Yesterday morning, the winds went light; too light to sail. We tried in vain to use the spinnaker for a few hours, but we just weren\’t getting anywhere. If we go less than 5 knots for very
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2013/05/26 09:12 LATITUDE: 25-26.51S LONGITUDE: 012-25.72E COURSE: 268T SPEED: 5.6 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 14 WIND_DIR: SSE WAVE_HT: 0.2M WAVE_PER: 6 SWELL_DIR: SSE SWELL_HT: 1.4M SWELL_PER: 6 CLOUDS: 100% VISIBILITY: 12 BARO: 1019.9 TREND: 1 AIR_TEMP: 17.2C SEA_TEMP: 16.7C COMMENT: Beach House -EN ROUTE – Namibia to St. Helena Island – Day 1-160nm
Day one to St. Helena and bye bye Luderitz….. May 24th-25th, 2013 (Eastern Hemisphere) +1 on GMT We wanted to get checked out of Namibia early in the day as it takes lots of time to organize and do last minute \”boatie\” chores before departure. We also had plans to have dinner out at Barrels
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2013/05/25 08:43 LATITUDE: 26-36.13S LONGITUDE: 015-06.14E COURSE: 292T SPEED: 5.5 MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 14 WIND_DIR: S CLOUDS: 100% VISIBILITY: 10 BARO: 1020.3 TREND: 1 AIR_TEMP: 15.0C COMMENT: Beach House -EN ROUTE – Namibia to St. Helena Island We had a lovely evening at \”Barrels\” restaurant with Pat & Steve and a good
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2013/05/21 16:35 LATITUDE: 26-38.43S LONGITUDE: 015-09.41E MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 7 WIND_DIR: N CLOUDS: 100% VISIBILITY: 5 BARO: 1017.9 TREND: 1 AIR_TEMP: 14.4C COMMENT: Beach House -MOORED-Luderitz, Namiba We arrived at 4pm local time and found one mooring available. We\’ll check in tomorrow and expect to be here at least two days. Weather
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2013/05/21 09:34 LATITUDE: 27-08.05S LONGITUDE: 015-01.68E COURSE: 000T SPEED: 6.7 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 15 WIND_DIR: NNW WAVE_HT: 0.2M WAVE_PER: 6 SWELL_DIR: WNW SWELL_HT: 2.0M SWELL_PER: 6 CLOUDS: 100% VISIBILITY: 5 BARO: 1017.2 TREND: 1 AIR_TEMP: 13.9C SEA_TEMP: 13.9C COMMENT: Beach House -EN ROUTE – Luderitz, Namibia It\’s 11:30 am local time and
Day Three to Luderitz….. Cold and Wet May 21st, 2013 (Eastern Hemisphere) After we gybed the main yesterday, we were pretty much right on course and had stronger than predicted winds (yet again!). Initially, it wasn\’t blowing too hard so we put up the spinnaker again. Shortly thereafter of course, the winds piped up into
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