2016 March Blog

Beach House Ship\’s Mini Blog & Position Report – Steering Update – A big and small day – on the downhill run! to Fatu Hiva…..

AIRMAIL YOTREPS IDENT: N6ABC TIME: 2016/05/13 18:00 LATITUDE: 10-19.61S LONGITUDE: 134-27.25W COURSE: 256T SPEED: 8.3 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 20 WIND_DIR: ESE WAVE_HT: 0.3M WAVE_PER: 5 SWELL_DIR: ESE SWELL_HT: 2.8M SWELL_PER: 8 CLOUDS: 30% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1013.9 AIR_TEMP: 31.7C COMMENT: Beach House – En Route – Marquesas Islands – Day 17 – 165 nm (245 …

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Beach House Ship\’s Mini Blog & Position Report – Squalls and Steering….

AIRMAIL YOTREPS IDENT: N6ABC TIME: 2016/05/12 18:04 LATITUDE: 10-34.33S LONGITUDE: 131-55.48W COURSE: 265T SPEED: 6.5 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 17 WIND_DIR: ENE WAVE_HT: 0.1M WAVE_PER: 5 SWELL_DIR: E SWELL_HT: 3.0M SWELL_PER: 8 CLOUDS: 30% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1014.1 AIR_TEMP: 31.7C COMMENT: Beach House – En Route – Marquesas Islands – Day 16 – 165 nm Housekeeping: …

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Beach House Ship\’s Mini Blog & Position Report – NOT a standard day…..A Whale of a Tail…

AIRMAIL YOTREPS IDENT: N6ABC TIME: 2016/05/11 18:06 LATITUDE: 10-42.18S LONGITUDE: 129-13.80W COURSE: 243T SPEED: 7.9 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 22 WIND_DIR: E WAVE_HT: 0.3M WAVE_PER: 5 SWELL_DIR: ESE SWELL_HT: 3.5M SWELL_PER: 8 CLOUDS: 10% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1014.3 AIR_TEMP: 31.1C COMMENT: Beach House – En Route – Marquesas Islands – Day 15 – 190 nm (550 …

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Beach House Ship\’s Mini Blog & Position Report – A pretty standard day…..

AIRMAIL YOTREPS IDENT: N6ABC TIME: 2016/05/10 18:00 LATITUDE: 09-49.81S LONGITUDE: 126-07.61W COURSE: 243T SPEED: 8.1 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 20 WIND_DIR: ESE WAVE_HT: 0.3M WAVE_PER: 5 SWELL_DIR: ESE SWELL_HT: 2.5M SWELL_PER: 8 CLOUDS: 20% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1014.7 AIR_TEMP: 31.7C COMMENT: Beach House – En Route – Marquesas Islands – Day 14 – 170 nm Many …

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Beach House Ship\’s Mini Blog & Position Report – We were passed by a sports car!…

AIRMAIL YOTREPS IDENT: N6ABC TIME: 2016/05/09 17:58 LATITUDE: 09-13.10S LONGITUDE: 123-22.22W COURSE: 258T SPEED: 8.1 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 20 WIND_DIR: ESE WAVE_HT: 0.3M WAVE_PER: 5 SWELL_DIR: ESE SWELL_HT: 2.5M SWELL_PER: 8 CLOUDS: 25% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1014.4 AIR_TEMP: 31.1C COMMENT: Beach House – En Route – Marquesas Islands – Day 13 – 176 nm ZOOM …

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Beach House Ship\’s Mini Blog & Position Report – Fast and Slow, but a great ride (though!)….

AIRMAIL YOTREPS IDENT: N6ABC TIME: 2016/05/08 18:10 LATITUDE: 08-31.80S LONGITUDE: 120-33.61W COURSE: 254T SPEED: 7.6 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 14 WIND_DIR: 102T WAVE_HT: 0.2M WAVE_PER: 6 SWELL_DIR: ESE SWELL_HT: 2.2M SWELL_PER: 7 CLOUDS: 25% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1015.3 AIR_TEMP: 31.7C COMMENT: Beach House – En Route – Marquesas Islands – Day 12 – 175 nm (7.3 …

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Beach House Ship\’s Mini Blog & Position Report – Easy Day, Squalls a bust – Big Reacher out on the pole!….

AIRMAIL YOTREPS IDENT: N6ABC TIME: 2016/05/07 18:02 LATITUDE: 08-00.99S LONGITUDE: 117-40.07W COURSE: 277T SPEED: 8.0 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 19 WIND_DIR: ESE WAVE_HT: 0.3M WAVE_PER: 5 SWELL_DIR: ESE SWELL_HT: 2.7M SWELL_PER: 2 CLOUDS: 20% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1015.1 AIR_TEMP: 30.6C COMMENT: Beach House – En Route – Marquesas Islands – Day 11 – 167 nm (took …

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Beach House – Ship\’s Mini Blog & Position Report – Ms. Piggy\’s starting to strech her legs at the half way point, Crap Shoot takes flight, HAM in Wisconsin…..

AIRMAIL YOTREPS IDENT: N6ABC TIME: 2016/05/06 18:10 LATITUDE: 07-46.29S LONGITUDE: 114-56.35W COURSE: 260T SPEED: 7.7 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 20 WIND_DIR: ESE WAVE_HT: 0.7M WAVE_PER: 5 SWELL_DIR: ESE SWELL_HT: 3.0M SWELL_PER: 6 CLOUDS: 40% VISIBILITY: 8 BARO: 1015.1 AIR_TEMP: 30.0C COMMENT: Beach House – En Route – Marquesas Islands – Day 10 – 182 nm (Pretty …

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Beach House – Ship\’s Mini Blog & Position Report – Cold Front, Spinnaker Drills, "Crap Shoot" and the loss of "Morning Dove"…..

AIRMAIL YOTREPS IDENT: N6ABC TIME: 2016/05/05 18:14 LATITUDE: 07-31.25S LONGITUDE: 111-56.08W COURSE: 269T SPEED: 8.0 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 17 WIND_DIR: SE WAVE_HT: 0.7M WAVE_PER: 5 SWELL_DIR: SSE SWELL_HT: 2.0M SWELL_PER: 8 CLOUDS: 100% VISIBILITY: 5 BARO: 1013.6 AIR_TEMP: 26.1C COMMENT: Beach House – En Route – Marquesas Islands – Day 9 – 165 nm (just …

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Beach House – Ship\’s Mini Blog & Position Report – Slow Going, More Boobie and the Amadon Light!….

AIRMAIL YOTREPS IDENT: N6ABC TIME: 2016/05/04 18:07 LATITUDE: 07-23.22S LONGITUDE: 109-15.34W COURSE: 243T SPEED: 4.9 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 6 WIND_DIR: E SWELL_DIR: SSE SWELL_HT: 2.0M SWELL_PER: 8 CLOUDS: 10% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1013.5 AIR_TEMP: 33.3C COMMENT: Beach House – En Route – Marquesas Islands – Day 8 – 134 nm We had a lovely and …

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