Day Four to Chagos – breakage and a fix!….. 29 September 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, The miles are clicking away, but overall this passage has been fairly slow. We\’ll most likely do around 155 miles today. I always do my planning on around 170 miles/day. The reason is squalls. We get 20-22 knots for […]
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/09/28 02:08 LATITUDE: 11-44.89S LONGITUDE: 088-42.02E COURSE: 301T SPEED: 8.7 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 19 WIND_DIR: ESE WAVE_HT: 0.3M WAVE_PER: 7 SWELL_DIR: SSE SWELL_HT: 2.7M SWELL_PER: 10 CLOUDS: 75% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1016.5 AIR_TEMP: 27.2C COMMENT: Beach House – EN ROUTE – Salomon Atoll, Chagos Archipelago Wind up and down, now UP! about
Settling In….. 28 September 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, Last night was night three for us and it takes about till the third day to settle in on a long passage. Since we\’d made a few three day passages in the last month, it felt like we were more or less still in our routine.
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/09/27 01:45 LATITUDE: 12-05.99S LONGITUDE: 091-18.10E COURSE: 277T SPEED: 5.7 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 14 WIND_DIR: ESE WAVE_HT: 0.2M WAVE_PER: 7 SWELL_DIR: SSE SWELL_HT: 2.5M SWELL_PER: 10 CLOUDS: 95% VISIBILITY: 10 BARO: 1018.1 AIR_TEMP: 25.6C COMMENT: Beach House – EN ROUTE – Salomon Atoll, Chagos Archipelago. 161 nm day 2 run. We\’ve a
Entering the Back of Beyond….. 27 September 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, Last night we anticipated another bit of breeze so we took two reefs in the main and kept up the full genoa. The wind never came. By midnight, we\’d shaken both reefs out and the wind has steadily dropped into this morning at
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/09/26 01:44 LATITUDE: 12-12.52S LONGITUDE: 094-01.07E COURSE: 274T SPEED: 7.0 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 21 WIND_DIR: ESE WAVE_HT: 0.4M WAVE_PER: 7 SWELL_DIR: S SWELL_HT: 3.0M SWELL_PER: 10 CLOUDS: 50% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1018.1 AIR_TEMP: 28.3C COMMENT: Beach House – EN ROUTE – Salomon Atoll, Chagos Archipelago. New blogs posted at: www.svbeachhouse.com Position Report
Day One to Chagos….. 26 September 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, The first few days are all about getting your sea legs and tummy back. I\’m doing very well for only 24 hours out of Cocos, we\’ll see how Nikki is when she wakes up. She was working on her celestial navigation last night which
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Half Way Round….. 25 September 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, The weather ahead was my concern yesterday. There was a system of weak low pressure cells along our route. For the most part, these were knocking the wind speed down so much, we might not be able to sail very effectively. I have more diesel
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Weather Delay…Cocos Island Dear F&F, We did some relaxing and touring around in the dinghy yesterday awaiting the latest weather to see if we\’d be off today for Chagos. We tried to find the local (one and only) Dugong here at the western edge of Direction Island, but no luck. We then took advantage of
Liquid Gold….. September 21-22, 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, Well Peter and I of s/v \”Mango\” topped up our fuel. The Co-op at Home Island charges $2.42 Australian per LITER! That\’s about $9.30 per GALLON US. So 21 gallons (80 liters) cost 200.00 US! If you think you\’re paying a lot at the pump, try