YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2010/07/25 02:01 LATITUDE: 19-13.49S LONGITUDE: 166-12.84W COURSE: 245T SPEED: 6.1 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 8 WIND_DIR: 064T WAVE_HT: 0.0M WAVE_PER: 7 SWELL_DIR: NE SWELL_HT: 2.0M SWELL_PER: 7 CLOUDS: 30% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1016.9 TREND: -1 AIR_TEMP: 29.4C COMMENT: Beach House – En Route – Palmerston to Beveridge Reef (3/4ths of the way – […]
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2010/07/24 01:01 LATITUDE: 18-27.11S LONGITUDE: 163-46.56W COURSE: 225T SPEED: 7.4 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 18 WIND_DIR: 078T WAVE_HT: 0.5M WAVE_PER: 7 SWELL_DIR: E SWELL_HT: 2.5M SWELL_PER: 7 CLOUDS: 40% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1016.1 AIR_TEMP: 27.8C COMMENT: Beach House – En Route – Palmerston Atoll to Beveridge Reef (300 miles)…..Arrive Sunday A.M.
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2010/07/24 08:46 LATITUDE: 19-02.28S LONGITUDE: 164-26.38W COURSE: 226T SPEED: 6.3 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 16 WIND_DIR: 070T WAVE_HT: 1.0M WAVE_PER: 7 SWELL_DIR: E SWELL_HT: 2.0M SWELL_PER: 7 CLOUDS: 40% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1016.1 AIR_TEMP: 27.8C COMMENT: Beach House – En Route – Palmerston to Beveridge Reef….. Approx 1/3rd the way….Arrive Sunday A.M.
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2010/07/24 21:35 LATITUDE: 19-11.83S LONGITUDE: 165-41.62W COURSE: 268T SPEED: 6.9 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 15 WIND_DIR: 051T WAVE_HT: 0.5M WAVE_PER: 7 SWELL_DIR: NE SWELL_HT: 2.0M SWELL_PER: 7 CLOUDS: 20% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1018.7 AIR_TEMP: 28.3C COMMENT: Beach House – En Route – Palmerston to Beveridge Reef (2/3rds the way)…..Arrive Sunday A.M. with 4
Dear F&F, We\’d heard that when you were at Palmerston the locals did everything they could to \”get some work out of you\”. We were no exception! As soon as they found out we were SCUBA divers, we were put to work. First, we checked our own mooring to make sure it was in good
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Dear F&F, Sunday is church day on Palmerston Island and we were invited to attend. Bob and Taia picked us up and we were whisked through the boat pass to shore. Here we met all the islands ladies and many gentleman dressed in their Sunday finest. The religion is the Cook Islands Christian Church a
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Dear F&F, We were first to arrive, but the Puddle Jump fleet was about to arrive and in numbers! Several hours after we\’d arrived, s/v \”Na Maka\” with Jerome, NAT and the kids arrived in the middle of the night. Jerome is not timid and found one of the two other moorings next to which
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Dear F&F, After our adventure in \”up anchoring\”, we set sail for what would be an expected brief 200 mile passage to Palmerston Atoll. We pushed on and made the 200 miles in 36 hours arriving at 4 p.m on the 18th of July. This trip was much lighter in wind and smaller of sea
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2010/07/18 02:34 LATITUDE: 18-02.83S LONGITUDE: 163-11.59W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 17 WIND_DIR: 093T CLOUDS: 30% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1014.9 AIR_TEMP: 30.0C COMMENT: Beach House – Moored or Anchored (Don\’t know yet-turf wars you know!) – Palmerston Atoll,- Bob and family are our hosts!