A Slow Day….. 24 October 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, Yesterday was a slow one. It started out fast but then we hit a strong and unexpected \”head current\” which retarded our speed up to 2 knots for awhile! This along with the diminishing winds (as predicted), have slowed us considerably. Yesterday\’s run was a […]
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/10/24 02:12 LATITUDE: 12-25.23S LONGITUDE: 052-43.48E COURSE: 266T SPEED: 5.5 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 11 WIND_DIR: SE WAVE_HT: 0.0M WAVE_PER: 0 SWELL_DIR: SSE SWELL_HT: 1.5M SWELL_PER: 8 CLOUDS: 40% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1014.4 AIR_TEMP: 25.0C COMMENT: Beach House -En-ROUTE- Chagos to Madagascar. Day 7 – 160 miles (195 to go to the top).
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/10/23 02:10 LATITUDE: 12-10.12S LONGITUDE: 055-25.62E COURSE: 268T SPEED: 7.1 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 20 WIND_DIR: SSE WAVE_HT: 0.1M WAVE_PER: 7 SWELL_DIR: SSE SWELL_HT: 2.2M SWELL_PER: 8 CLOUDS: 70% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1015.2 AIR_TEMP: 24.4C COMMENT: Beach House – En-ROUTE – Chagos to Madagascar. Day 6 – 197 miles (back to back)! A
We\’re Getting Close….. 23 October 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, Last night was a beautiful sail. The seas at only 2 meters, long and pretty smooth. The wind has been around 17-20 knots just aft the port beam, but we\’re able to carry our genoa winged out to weather on the pole. We\’re starting to
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/10/22 02:04 LATITUDE: 12-01.36S LONGITUDE: 058-46.39E COURSE: 264T SPEED: 8.0 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 23 WIND_DIR: SSE WAVE_HT: 0.2M WAVE_PER: 7 SWELL_DIR: SSE SWELL_HT: 2.5M SWELL_PER: 8 CLOUDS: 80% VISIBILITY: 10 BARO: 1015.5 AIR_TEMP: 24.4C COMMENT: Beach House -En-ROUTE- Chagos to Madagascar. Day 5 – 197 miles New blog posted at www.svbeachhouse.com Three
Thoughts from the West Indian Ocean….. 22 October 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, We left Los Angeles, California 5 years ago. So much has happened. Yesterday \”Beach House\” was literally half way round the world from where we started. Playing on the old riddle, \”How far can you run into the forest?\”…..\”Half way, as beyond
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/10/21 02:03 LATITUDE: 11-46.40S LONGITUDE: 062-07.66E COURSE: 269T SPEED: 7.8 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 18 WIND_DIR: SE WAVE_HT: 0.2M WAVE_PER: 7 SWELL_DIR: SSE SWELL_HT: 2.8M SWELL_PER: 7 CLOUDS: 90% VISIBILITY: 10 BARO: 1015.3 AIR_TEMP: 23.9C COMMENT: Beach House -En-ROUTE- Chagos to Madagascar. Day 4, 178 nm Changed course to head for Cap d\’Ambre.
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/10/20 02:00 LATITUDE: 10-19.43S LONGITUDE: 064-47.59E COURSE: 238T SPEED: 8.2 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 23 WIND_DIR: SE WAVE_HT: 0.5M WAVE_PER: 6 SWELL_DIR: SSE SWELL_HT: 3.0M SWELL_PER: 10 CLOUDS: 60% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1014.3 AIR_TEMP: 30.0C COMMENT: Beach House -En-ROUTE- Chagos to Madagascar. Day 3 – 192 nm. We\’re heading for an intermediate waypoint
Thoughts from the Mascarene Plateau….. 20 October 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, As I begin this blog, it\’s 6:45 a.m. local time and I\’ve just had to wipe the spray from the cockpit off the keyboard! It\’s a bit \”boisterous\” out here…:-) We\’ve had two reefs in the main and the staysail up since sunset
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/10/19 01:54 LATITUDE: 08-32.75S LONGITUDE: 067-24.05E COURSE: 248T SPEED: 10.8 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 20 WIND_DIR: SE WAVE_HT: 0.2M WAVE_PER: 6 SWELL_DIR: SSE SWELL_HT: 2.5M SWELL_PER: 10 CLOUDS: 70% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1013.9 AIR_TEMP: 28.9C COMMENT: Beach House – En-ROUTE – Chagos to Madagascar. 173 nm last 24 hours. New blog posted at: