YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/11/15 06:30 LATITUDE: 19-22.26S LONGITUDE: 038-39.81E COURSE: 212T SPEED: 5.9 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 7 WIND_DIR: S WAVE_HT: 0.5M WAVE_PER: 4 SWELL_DIR: SSE SWELL_HT: 1.3M SWELL_PER: 5 CLOUDS: 25% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1018.2 AIR_TEMP: 30.6C COMMENT: Beach House -EN ROUTE -Madagascar to Richard\’s Bay, South Africa Day 3 – 155 miles. At least […]
What a day!….. 14 November 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, Yesterday – we ran out of wind in the late afternoon and motored on our one operable starboard engine until 3:00 a.m. when the wind came back up from 13-18 knots. Prior to the arrival of the wind, it was calmest night at sea I
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/11/14 07:00 LATITUDE: 17-55.18S LONGITUDE: 040-40.41E COURSE: 274T SPEED: 5.3 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 10 WIND_DIR: ENE WAVE_HT: 0.0M WAVE_PER: 0 SWELL_DIR: S SWELL_HT: 0.5M SWELL_PER: 6 CLOUDS: 35% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1017 AIR_TEMP: 30.0C COMMENT: Beach House-EN ROUTE-Madagascar to Richard\’s Bay, South Africa Day 2 – 135 miles. A record….low mileage day.
South Africa or bust?…. 12-13 November 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, Okay, did all the last minute checks…THE WEATHER looks good, we\’re off….sort of. First thing, the port engine won\’t start. It\’s a fuel starvation problem. The filters look awful, so does the fuel. The fuel we picked up in Indonesia and Hellville may be
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/11/13 05:57 LATITUDE: 16-49.09S LONGITUDE: 042-46.03E COURSE: 233T SPEED: 6.9 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 8 WIND_DIR: NE WAVE_HT: 0.0M WAVE_PER: 0 SWELL_DIR: S SWELL_HT: 1.2M SWELL_PER: 6 CLOUDS: 20% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1017.3 AIR_TEMP: 31.7C COMMENT: Beach House – EN ROUTE – Madagascar to Richard\’s Bay, South Africa ABEAM Isla Juan de Nova
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/11/12 13:51 LATITUDE: 16-11.50S LONGITUDE: 044-21.43E COURSE: 220T SPEED: 7.0 MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 16 WIND_DIR: WSW CLOUDS: 30% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1015.3 AIR_TEMP: 29.4C COMMENT: Beach House -ABEAM – Cape St. Andre…FINALLY! EN ROUTE – Richards Bay-South Africa Like \”Hotel California\”….\”You can check out, but you can never leave!\”….
Paul, (Peri Peri Radio – South Africa) cc: my mini group Dear F&F, We left Baly Bay yesterday morning. We have also lost our port engine due to fuel starvation. I have not been able to sort it out with new filters and some other tricks. The engine\’s \”lift pump\” may have gone out? At
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Dear F&F, We were 20 miles from Cape St. Andre and the wind abrupty shifted to SSW and blew 35 knots with lightening and a serious long term squall. We decided that descretion being the best part of valor to turn back to Baly Bay… The big concern is that once we past Cape St.
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Majunga to Baly Bay!…… 12 November 2012 Dear F&F, We departed for Baly Bay early as it was a long trip. The weather was perfect for a crossing to South Africa even. In fact, it was so good, we decided to go! We set the reacher, the full main and set a waypoint for 5
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/11/11 20:16 LATITUDE: 15-57.98S LONGITUDE: 045-16.76E MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 10 WIND_DIR: SW CLOUDS: 20% VISIBILITY: 12 BARO: 1015.4 AIR_TEMP: 24.4C COMMENT: Beach House -ANCHORED- Baly Bay…reassess tomorrow! Nice and calm in here! Stars are out again. Will look at the weather in the a.m. Nighty nite!.. Scott and Sleepy Nik