Dear Friends and Family, First, congrats to all our friends in Florida for surviving Hurricane Matthew. We had a report of about 100 mph gusts in Stuart, Florida! Another bit of excitement, we heard a medical emergency on another boat about 500 miles west of us. He was being assisted by the ever present and […]
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AIRMAIL YOTREPS IDENT: N6ABC TIME: 2016/10/07 00:14 LATITUDE: 13-59.68S LONGITUDE: 172-15.09W COURSE: 217T SPEED: 8.8 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 20 WIND_DIR: SE WAVE_HT: 0.4M WAVE_PER: 6 SWELL_DIR: E SWELL_HT: 1.8M SWELL_PER: 8 CLOUDS: 40% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1013.7 AIR_TEMP: 30.6C COMMENT: Beach House – En Route – Apia, Western Samoa – Niatapatopu, Tonga We\’ll give a
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COMMENT: Beach House – DOCKED – Apia, Western Samoa So far, a very pleasant surprise. We heard the marina wasn\’t particularly nice, but we think it\’s just fine! We got the last slip too! There are only about 8 so far. They are putting in lots more. There is 220V/50 hz power which we can
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Beach House – En ROUTE – Apia, Western Samoa – Now +12 on UTC and skipping a day ahead. We had a nice stop over in Pago Pago, but are glad to be on our way. American Samoa is really sort of a \”shop/fuel/propane – take a quick look around\” and go type of experience.
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25 September 2016 (-11 UTC) COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Pago Pago, American Samoa (total run 149 miles – 23 hours) We had a brief spat of wind last night, but a false alarm and as such we ended up motoring the entire distance from Rose Atoll to Pago Pago, American Samoa. Pago Pago
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AIRMAIL YOTREPS IDENT: N6ABC TIME: 2016/09/25 07:34 LATITUDE: 14-25.16S LONGITUDE: 169-27.57W COURSE: 275T SPEED: 6.9 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 16 WIND_DIR: ENE WAVE_HT: 0.1M WAVE_PER: 10 SWELL_DIR: E SWELL_HT: 1.2M SWELL_PER: 10 CLOUDS: 80% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1012.3 AIR_TEMP: 28.3C COMMENT: Beach House -EN ROUTE – Pago Pago, American Samoa (68 miles to go) We departed
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AIRMAIL YOTREPS IDENT: N6ABC TIME: 2016/09/22 20:00 LATITUDE: 14-32.88S LONGITUDE: 168-08.89W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 7 WIND_DIR: N CLOUDS: 25% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1013.3 TREND: 1 AIR_TEMP: 32.2C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Rose Island, Rose Atoll, American Samoa What a Magic Place! We were met by dozens of Boobie Birds outside the reef for
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AIRMAIL YOTREPS IDENT: N6ABC TIME: 2016/09/21 19:02 LATITUDE: 13-51.31S LONGITUDE: 165-33.63W COURSE: 255T SPEED: 6.5 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 10 WIND_DIR: NNE SWELL_DIR: ENE SWELL_HT: 1.3M SWELL_PER: 10 CLOUDS: 15% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1013.3 TREND: -1 AIR_TEMP: 32.2C COMMENT: Beach House -En Route – Suwarrow Atoll, Cook Islands – Rose Atoll, American Samoa (154 miles to
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20 September 2016 (-10 on UTC) Dear Friends and Family, We spent three days and nights in Suwarrow and overall it was quite interesting. One of the big attractions for the cruising crowd is to walk in the steps of the late Tom Neale. Neale was a Kiwi ex-pat who had moved to French Polynesia
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AIRMAIL YOTREPS IDENT: N6ABC TIME: 2016/09/17 02:52 LATITUDE: 13-14.91S LONGITUDE: 163-06.47W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 9 WIND_DIR: E CLOUDS: 85% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1011.6 AIR_TEMP: 32.2C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Suwarrow Atoll, Cook Islands ————————————————- Do not push the \”reply\” button to respond to this message if that includes the text of this original