2012 Australia – Indonesia – Indian Ocean to South Africa Voyage – Position

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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/06/27 10:03 LATITUDE: 11-03.90S LONGITUDE: 141-00.18E COURSE: 256T SPEED: 5.3 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 10 WIND_DIR: S SWELL_DIR: SSW SWELL_HT: 1.0M SWELL_PER: 6 CLOUDS: 85% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1013.9 AIR_TEMP: 25.6C COMMENT: Beach House – Enroute – Gove, Northern Territory – Australia. Just started sailing… \”on the wind\”…..

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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/06/27 03:44 LATITUDE: 10-53.65S LONGITUDE: 141-45.35E COURSE: 257T SPEED: 8.1 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 3 WIND_DIR: SE SWELL_DIR: SSW SWELL_HT: 0.5M SWELL_PER: 5 CLOUDS: 50% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1013.5 AIR_TEMP: 30.6C COMMENT: Beach House – ENROUTE – Gove, NT – Australia…Motoring, no wind….. At this speed, 40 hours to go. Hoping for wind….

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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/06/24 04:33 LATITUDE: 10-50.87S LONGITUDE: 142-21.78E MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 15 WIND_DIR: SE CLOUDS: 85% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1014.3 AIR_TEMP: 27.2C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Seisa, (at the north entrance to the Gulf of Carpinteria)….. Correction, GPS hadn\’t updated!…. resending

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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/06/23 07:30 LATITUDE: 10-41.29S LONGITUDE: 142-31.54E COURSE: 276T SPEED: 0.8 MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 19 WIND_DIR: SE CLOUDS: 35% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1014.1 AIR_TEMP: 25.6C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Cape York, \”The Top of OZ\”….

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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/06/23 07:07 LATITUDE: 10-40.65S LONGITUDE: 142-31.92E COURSE: 310T SPEED: 8.4 MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 19 WIND_DIR: SE CLOUDS: 35% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1014.2 AIR_TEMP: 25.6C COMMENT: Beach House – ROUNDING & ABEAM – Cape York, \”The Top of OZ\”….

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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/06/22 06:52 LATITUDE: 10-58.04S LONGITUDE: 142-40.82E MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 15 WIND_DIR: SE CLOUDS: 20% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1012.9 AIR_TEMP: 28.9C COMMENT: Beach House -ANCHORED – Escape River, lots of pearl farms…

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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/06/21 04:20 LATITUDE: 11-57.42S LONGITUDE: 143-12.53E MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 12 WIND_DIR: SE CLOUDS: 60% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1013.7 AIR_TEMP: 28.9C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Margaret Bay, Cape Grenville…. I\’m going to start putting these notes on the home page at: www.svbeachhouse.com They will be the new \”blog of the day\” …

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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/06/20 05:46 LATITUDE: 12-35.60S LONGITUDE: 143-24.46E MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 17 WIND_DIR: ESE CLOUDS: 100% VISIBILITY: 10 BARO: 1014.7 AIR_TEMP: 23.9C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Portland Roads, nice sail, cloudy, drizzle….. 60 miles in tandem with s/v \”Kakadu\” from NZ. Cape Grenville tomorrow. Getting close to \”The Top\”…

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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/06/19 04:56 LATITUDE: 13-29.44S LONGITUDE: 143-43.36E COURSE: 019T SPEED: 1.6 MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 24 WIND_DIR: ESE CLOUDS: 85% VISIBILITY: 10 BARO: 1015.9 AIR_TEMP: 26.7C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Morris Island, NOW, LOTS of Wind!… One hour before we arrived, the wind went from zero to 25 out of the ESE. …

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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/06/18 07:38 LATITUDE: 14-10.74S LONGITUDE: 144-13.78E MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 5 WIND_DIR: ESE CLOUDS: 15% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1017.2 AIR_TEMP: 26.7C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Owens Passage, Flinders Island… We had such a great sail that we arrived at Ninan too early, pressed on to Cape Melville, but the anchorage was …

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