Cocos-Keeling Island….. 19-21 September 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, We arrived at Cocos-Keeling Island after an exactly 3 day passage from Christmas Island. It was uneventful and a nice sail. Upon arrival, we noticed the 150 Australian Customs vessel and two small boats which had come in with boat people from Sri Lanka. Apparently, the […]
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/09/19 01:43 LATITUDE: 12-05.52S LONGITUDE: 096-52.99E MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 14 WIND_DIR: ESE CLOUDS: 15% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1016.5 AIR_TEMP: 27.8C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Cocos-Keeling\’s, Direction Island Time of trip, exactly 72 hours, 530 nm. Day run 169 nm We\’ll be here for 3-7 days, most likely around 4-5. 5
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/09/18 01:04 LATITUDE: 11-35.68S LONGITUDE: 099-43.21E COURSE: 260T SPEED: 6.5 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 14 WIND_DIR: ESE WAVE_HT: 0.2M WAVE_PER: 7 SWELL_DIR: S SWELL_HT: 3.0M SWELL_PER: 10 CLOUDS: 40% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1016.5 AIR_TEMP: 27.8C COMMENT: Beach House – EN Route – Cocos-Keeling. 180 nm last 24 hours. Easy sailing. New post up,
Nice day at sea….. 18 September 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, The last 24 hours of sailing has been some of the steadiest and sublime I\’ve yet experienced in a long ocean passage. The swell is 3 meters from the south (10 feet), but it\’s a 10 second period swell with little or no \”seas\”
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/09/17 01:23 LATITUDE: 11-04.85S LONGITUDE: 102-40.64E COURSE: 266T SPEED: 6.4 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 14 WIND_DIR: ESE WAVE_HT: 0.5M WAVE_PER: 7 SWELL_DIR: SE SWELL_HT: 2.0M SWELL_PER: 10 CLOUDS: 35% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1016.8 AIR_TEMP: 27.8C COMMENT: Beach House – EN Route – Cocos-Keeling Island. Expect 3 day trip, 180 nm run for 24
Bye, Bye Christmas…Onward to Cocos-Keeling…… 17 September 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, We spent our last day at Christmas Island doing some emailing and interneting as we\’re getting close to being truly \”off the grid\”. We do expect some wifi at Cocos, but that\’s it for up to 6-8 weeks. We did a driving tour
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It\’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas….. 13-15 September 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, We arrived at dawn on the 13th having just passed our friends on s/v \”Ainia\” who left 28 hours before us! We had a record 235 mile day as we benefited form a lovely 2-3 knot current pushing us here.
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/09/12 23:31 LATITUDE: 10-25.70S LONGITUDE: 105-40.17E COMMENT: Beach House – MOORED – Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island, 2 days, 20 hours. Nice anchorage We passed s/v \”Ainia\” 5 miles before arrival. Will clear Aussie Customs and enjoy.
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/09/12 03:01 LATITUDE: 10-00.19S LONGITUDE: 108-18.56E COURSE: 261T SPEED: 9.4 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 20 WIND_DIR: SSE WAVE_HT: 0.5M WAVE_PER: 7 SWELL_DIR: SSE SWELL_HT: 3.0M SWELL_PER: 10 CLOUDS: 35% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1018.7 AIR_TEMP: 27.2C COMMENT: Beach House – EN-ROUTE – Christmas Island, expect early a.m arrival. We just had the best 24
Sailing Along…..Reflections….. 11 September 2012, (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, On this ominous date, I am reminded of how big events can be in this world, yet how small we are out here floating upon the vast Indian Ocean. The voyages this season will have \”Beach House\” putting on some real mileage. To recap.. Our first
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