YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/11/01 07:48 LATITUDE: 13-26.49S LONGITUDE: 048-21.05E MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 8 WIND_DIR: NW CLOUDS: 10% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1015.5 AIR_TEMP: 32.8C COMMENT: Beach House -ANCHORED- Nose Komba Island. We\’ll head back to Sakatia tomorrow Glad to be out of \”Hell\”!ville…
Sakatia and off to HELLville….. We first anchored at the small island of Sakatia just northwest of Nose Be. We\’d heard good things about one of the fishing lodges here and that they could help us with advice on how to check in. The owner of the lodge no longer lives there, but his immediate
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/10/29 13:12 LATITUDE: 13-24.37S LONGITUDE: 048-17.04E MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 8 WIND_DIR: W CLOUDS: 40% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1012.3 AIR_TEMP: 30.6C COMMENT: Beach House -ANCHORED- HELLville, Nose Be Island – Madagascar Check in tomorrow…..Now we can truly say, \”We\’ve been to Hell!\”…:-)
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/10/26 13:05 LATITUDE: 13-17.90S LONGITUDE: 048-10.63E MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 13 WIND_DIR: 205T CLOUDS: 60% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1012.5 AIR_TEMP: 30.6C COMMENT: Beach House -ANCHORED- Sakatia Island, Sakatia Island Resort. We\’ll go ashore tomorrow. Watching the weather for possible TS/TC (hurricane) forming 700 miles to our NE in about three days. Let\’s hope
Eight Days a Week, Welcome to Madagascar!….. 25 October 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere, +3 UTC) Dear F&F, Well we\’re here! 8 days, 10 hours and overall, a pretty nice trip. Friends Dave and Kathy on \”Sunflower\” should be here tomorrow afternoon and may be in for a blustery night according to the weather. There are two
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/10/25 12:54 LATITUDE: 12-26.81S LONGITUDE: 048-46.10E MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 18 WIND_DIR: NE CLOUDS: 75% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1012.2 AIR_TEMP: 30.6C COMMENT: Beach House -ANCHORED- Andranoamby Bay, NW Madagascar. 2 other French Cats here….. Trip to here was 8 days, 10 hours. We will stay the night and move south toward Sakitia Island
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/10/25 05:50 LATITUDE: 11-56.63S LONGITUDE: 049-15.67E COURSE: 270T SPEED: 8.5 MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 23 WIND_DIR: SE CLOUDS: 30% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1015.6 AIR_TEMP: 23.9C COMMENT: Beach House -En-ROUTE- Chagos to Madagascar – Rounded the \”Top\” – Cap d\’Ambre, Madagascar
At The \”Top\”, Cap d\’ Ambre, Madagascar….. 25 October 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere +3 UTC) Dear F&F, Land Ho! at 5:30 local time, we spotted several hills ashore on Northern Madagascar from about 25 miles away. We\’ve flown the spinnaker all night and it was a lovely night and sail. The winds were from behind us
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/10/25 02:12 LATITUDE: 12-04.94S LONGITUDE: 049-45.92E COURSE: 281T SPEED: 8.2 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 18 WIND_DIR: SE WAVE_HT: 0.0M WAVE_PER: 0 SWELL_DIR: SSE SWELL_HT: 1.2M SWELL_PER: 8 CLOUDS: 30% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1015.6 AIR_TEMP: 23.9C COMMENT: Beach House -En-ROUTE- Chagos to Madagascar. Day 8 – 176 miles Twenty five miles to go to
To see Wikipedia about Chagos Archipelago: CLICK HERE To see Wikipedia about Salomon Atoll: CLICK HERE To view the SHIP\’S BLOGS associated with our voyage from Cocos Island to Chagos Archipeligo in chronological order, Click the following links here: Sept. 25th, 2012 – First #1 #2 #3
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