Dear F&F, February 19-20, 2009 February 19th It is 5:00 a.m., one more hour to go of my shift. The feared Tehuantepec is almost completely astern; the crossing picked at a perfect \”weather window\”. Predictions are it will be blowing 30-40 knots from the north, a full blown \”TEHUANTE-PECKER\” in less than 24 hours. At […]
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2009/02/20 10:29 LATITUDE: 14-21.24N LONGITUDE: 092-23.00W COURSE: 117T SPEED: 6.1 MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 5 WIND_DIR: E CLOUDS: 10% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1010 AIR_TEMP: 24.4C COMMENT: Beach House – Mexico – Guatemalan Border – heading to Puerto Quetzal
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2009/02/19 20:59 LATITUDE: 15-12.69N LONGITUDE: 093-25.78W COURSE: 128T SPEED: 6.4 MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 5 WIND_DIR: E CLOUDS: 10% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1010 AIR_TEMP: 33.4C COMMENT: Beach House – MOTORING ONE ENGINE, diverting to Puerto Quetzal (repairs) – Guatemala
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2009/02/19 14:35 LATITUDE: 15-36.70N LONGITUDE: 093-55.74W COURSE: 125T SPEED: 5.5 MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 5 WIND_DIR: E CLOUDS: 20% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1010 AIR_TEMP: 27.9C COMMENT: Beach House – MOTORING ONE ENGINE, Port transmission is out
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2009/02/19 06:06 LATITUDE: 15-51.71N LONGITUDE: 094-20.72W COURSE: 127T SPEED: 5.7 MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 5 WIND_DIR: E CLOUDS: 10% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1010 AIR_TEMP: 24.4C COMMENT: Beach House – East side of \”Lake T-Pec\”, still adverse current – 1.5-2 kts!
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2009/02/19 04:10 LATITUDE: 15-54.79N LONGITUDE: 094-48.92W COURSE: 089T SPEED: 5.7 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 5 WIND_DIR: SE WAVE_HT: 0.6M WAVE_PER: 14 SWELL_DIR: S SWELL_HT: 0.6M SWELL_PER: 14 CLOUDS: 10% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1011.6 AIR_TEMP: 25.0C SEA_TEMP: 27.8C COMMENT: Beach House – \”Maw of the Monster\”…Conditions IDEAL, sea calm, wind S at 5kts, 1.5-2kts
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2009/02/18 23:30 LATITUDE: 15-55.66N LONGITUDE: 095-17.25W COURSE: 088T SPEED: 7.2 MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 5 WIND_DIR: SE CLOUDS: 15% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1010.5 AIR_TEMP: 33.3C COMMENT: Beach House – Beginning T-Pec Crossing, conditions IDEAL..10kts from the South, sea calm
Dear F&F, February 18, 2009 Zarpe from Mexico – Day #1 Gulf of Tehuantepec Last night we both took sleep meds to make sure we got a full night\’s rest. The dock was very surgy & would have kept waking us up. Most people would not be able to stand up in the cockpit the
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Dear F&F, February 17, 2009 Our passage went fine. We enjoyed turtles, dolphins & schooling bait fish all the way down the coast. When Scott was on watch he had to slam the boat in reverse to avoid driving over a fishing lines strung out along several (hard to see from a distance) bleach bottles
Huatulco and preparing for the Gulf of Tehuantepec….. Read More »
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2009/02/17 21:45 LATITUDE: 15-45.74N LONGITUDE: 096-07.22W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 5 WIND_DIR: E CLOUDS: 10% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1011 AIR_TEMP: 33.3C COMMENT: Beach House – Docked – Marina Chahue, Huatulco, waiting for Wx Window T-Pec