YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2011/10/01 00:17 LATITUDE: 17-08.21S LONGITUDE: 167-59.72E COURSE: 168T SPEED: 8.3 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 13 WIND_DIR: 093T WAVE_HT: 0.5M WAVE_PER: 8 SWELL_DIR: ESE SWELL_HT: 1.0M SWELL_PER: 8 CLOUDS: 70% VISIBILITY: 10 BARO: 1014 TREND: -1 AIR_TEMP: 29.4C SEA_TEMP: 26.7C COMMENT: Beach House – EN ROUTE – Gaspard Bay, Malakula Island to Port Vila, […]
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2011/09/30 06:40 LATITUDE: 16-28.09S LONGITUDE: 167-48.75E COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Gaspard Bay, Malakula Island – Vanuatu. Adjacent to the Maskelyne Islands. 80 miles North of Port Vila.
Dear F&F, September 27th – 29th, 2011 (Eastern Hemisphere) We arrived at Luganville\’s \”Segond Channel\” just about 8 pm local time. It was completely dark and all the navigation lights on the charts either were not working or had changed their light patterns! Welcome to navigating in the \”back of beyond\”! We came in through
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2011/09/27 05:24 LATITUDE: 15-32.31S LONGITUDE: 167-10.71E COURSE: 141T SPEED: 0.7 MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 6 WIND_DIR: 123T CLOUDS: 80% VISIBILITY: 10 BARO: 1011 AIR_TEMP: 29.4C COMMENT: Beach House – MOORED – Luganville Bay, Aore Island Resort. Diving \”SS President Coolidge\” tomorrow. Have internet, but it\’s slow.
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2011/09/26 10:30 LATITUDE: 15-31.36S LONGITUDE: 167-09.94E MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 1 WIND_DIR: 135T CLOUDS: 80% VISIBILITY: 10 BARO: 1014 AIR_TEMP: 26.1C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Luganville Bay – Vanuatu. 3 days 14 hours. Average 7.0 knots. Check in tomorrow.
Dear F&F, September 26th, 2011 (Eastern Hemisphere) Today marks 4 years since \”Beach House\” left Marina del Rey, California. Needless to say, much has happened. Two days ago, we were having a brilliant spinnaker run which lasted 16 hours. At 4 a.m., the wind started to pipe up to 25 knots so prudence dictated dropping
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2011/09/23 00:00 LATITUDE: 16-12.43S LONGITUDE: 168-33.18E COURSE: 296T SPEED: 6.7 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 15 WIND_DIR: 102T WAVE_HT: 0.0M WAVE_PER: 8 SWELL_DIR: E SWELL_HT: 2.0M SWELL_PER: 8 CLOUDS: 95% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1014 AIR_TEMP: 25.0C SEA_TEMP: 25.0C COMMENT: Beach House – EN ROUTE – Luganville, 25 miles from Pentecost Island, hopefully Luganville by
Dear F&F, September 25th, 2011 (Eastern Hemisphere) Day 2 run: 180 nm Position: 16 deg 29.5 min South 170 deg 48.2 min East Speed: Ave = 7 knots Wind: 21 knots, ESE Swell: 6.5 feet (2 meters) Air: 81 deg F/ 27.2 deg C Baro: 1015 steady Yesterday was so nice out here, we set
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2011/09/23 00:00 LATITUDE: 16-33.34S LONGITUDE: 171-11.99E COURSE: 279T SPEED: 7.2 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 21 WIND_DIR: 110T WAVE_HT: 0.5M WAVE_PER: 8 SWELL_DIR: ESE SWELL_HT: 2.0M SWELL_PER: 8 CLOUDS: 40% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1015 AIR_TEMP: 27.8C SEA_TEMP: 26.1C COMMENT: Beach House – EN ROUTE – Luganville, Espiritu Santo Island – just shy of 2/3rds
Dear F&F, September 24th 2011 (Eastern Hemisphere) End of Day one: 175 nm 312 mile to Pentecost Island Passage, 380 miles to Luganville, Espiritu Santo Island – Vanuatu 16 deg 41 min S 174 deg 21 min E A lovely first days sail, we put the spinnaker up mid day today, winds are SSE at
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