YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/10/04 01:55 LATITUDE: 05-58.77S LONGITUDE: 074-12.65E COURSE: 305T SPEED: 4.7 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 18 WIND_DIR: NE WAVE_HT: 0.1M WAVE_PER: 6 SWELL_DIR: ENE SWELL_HT: 2.2M SWELL_PER: 10 CLOUDS: 70% VISIBILITY: 10 BARO: 1013.6 AIR_TEMP: 28.3C COMMENT: Beach House – EN ROUTE – Salomon Atoll, Chagos Archipelago. Day 9 145 nm. 123 nm to […]
Day 9, squalls, wind shifs and ships….. 04 October 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, Well yesterday turned out to be a nice day, lots of \”breeze\” (18-25 knots) and we were able to make some northing. The swells became more tolerable and today feels like we\’re almost at the dock relatively speaking!..:-) We saw two
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/10/03 01:53 LATITUDE: 07-06.45S LONGITUDE: 076-21.04E COURSE: 292T SPEED: 6.5 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 18 WIND_DIR: NE WAVE_HT: 0.2M WAVE_PER: 6 SWELL_DIR: ENE SWELL_HT: 3.5M SWELL_PER: 10 CLOUDS: 90% VISIBILITY: 10 BARO: 1015.1 AIR_TEMP: 27.2C COMMENT: Beach House – EN ROUTE – Salomon Atoll, Chagos Archipelago. 157 miles last 24 hours; Day 8
Day 8, Uh!….. 03 October 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, Well, the last 24 hours has not been lots of fun. Squalls, rain and most importantly, wind from a less favorable direction. We passed a few more ships on AIS yesterday and had a bit of a start this morning (1/2 hour ago) as we
Day 7, weather and ships….. 02 October 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, Yesterday was a nice sailing day, the evening got a bit cranky. The winds are definitely \”northern hemisphere\”. There is a small low pressure system now between us and Chagos which is moving toward Chagos. This should allow us to follow it in
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/10/02 01:56 LATITUDE: 08-10.98S LONGITUDE: 078-44.46E COURSE: 293T SPEED: 7.8 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 21 WIND_DIR: ENE WAVE_HT: 0.2M WAVE_PER: 6 SWELL_DIR: E SWELL_HT: 2.0M SWELL_PER: 10 CLOUDS: 70% VISIBILITY: 10 BARO: 1015.2 AIR_TEMP: 28.3C COMMENT: Beach House – EN ROUTE – Salomon Atoll, Chagos Archipelago. 161 nm last 24 hours I\’ll post
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/10/01 03:08 LATITUDE: 09-09.98S LONGITUDE: 081-06.57E COURSE: 291T SPEED: 6.6 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 18 WIND_DIR: NE WAVE_HT: 0.1M WAVE_PER: 6 SWELL_DIR: E SWELL_HT: 2.0M SWELL_PER: 10 CLOUDS: 100% VISIBILITY: 3 BARO: 1015.8 AIR_TEMP: 26.7C COMMENT: Beach House – EN ROUTE – Salomon Atoll, Chagos Archipelago. Day 6, 155 nm We have FOUR
Day 5, Transition? A message from afar….. 30 September 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, The last 24 hours has been interesting. Yesterday, we were in more frequent squalls which came from the south, crossed over us, rained on us and moved on. The winds shifted a bit, but mostly the intensity ranged; 12-28 knots. With
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/09/30 02:31 LATITUDE: 10-10.17S LONGITUDE: 083-31.95E COURSE: 295T SPEED: 6.6 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 14 WIND_DIR: NNE WAVE_HT: 0.1M WAVE_PER: 6 SWELL_DIR: ESE SWELL_HT: 1.7M SWELL_PER: 10 CLOUDS: 90% VISIBILITY: 10 BARO: 1015.4 AIR_TEMP: 27.8C COMMENT: Beach House – EN ROUTE – Salomon Atoll, Chagos Archipelago. Day 5, 153 nm We may be
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/09/29 02:13 LATITUDE: 10-49.21S LONGITUDE: 086-04.63E COURSE: 289T SPEED: 7.0 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 19 WIND_DIR: ESE WAVE_HT: 0.3M WAVE_PER: 7 SWELL_DIR: SSE SWELL_HT: 3.0M SWELL_PER: 10 CLOUDS: 90% VISIBILITY: 10 BARO: 1016.3 AIR_TEMP: 25.6C COMMENT: Beach House – EN ROUTE – Salomon Atoll, Chagos Archipelago 167 nm last 24 hours Estimate passage