YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/11/13 05:57 LATITUDE: 16-49.09S LONGITUDE: 042-46.03E COURSE: 233T SPEED: 6.9 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 8 WIND_DIR: NE WAVE_HT: 0.0M WAVE_PER: 0 SWELL_DIR: S SWELL_HT: 1.2M SWELL_PER: 6 CLOUDS: 20% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1017.3 AIR_TEMP: 31.7C COMMENT: Beach House – EN ROUTE – Madagascar to Richard\’s Bay, South Africa ABEAM Isla Juan de Nova […]
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/11/12 13:51 LATITUDE: 16-11.50S LONGITUDE: 044-21.43E COURSE: 220T SPEED: 7.0 MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 16 WIND_DIR: WSW CLOUDS: 30% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1015.3 AIR_TEMP: 29.4C COMMENT: Beach House -ABEAM – Cape St. Andre…FINALLY! EN ROUTE – Richards Bay-South Africa Like \”Hotel California\”….\”You can check out, but you can never leave!\”….
Paul, (Peri Peri Radio – South Africa) cc: my mini group Dear F&F, We left Baly Bay yesterday morning. We have also lost our port engine due to fuel starvation. I have not been able to sort it out with new filters and some other tricks. The engine\’s \”lift pump\” may have gone out? At
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Dear F&F, We were 20 miles from Cape St. Andre and the wind abrupty shifted to SSW and blew 35 knots with lightening and a serious long term squall. We decided that descretion being the best part of valor to turn back to Baly Bay… The big concern is that once we past Cape St.
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Majunga to Baly Bay!…… 12 November 2012 Dear F&F, We departed for Baly Bay early as it was a long trip. The weather was perfect for a crossing to South Africa even. In fact, it was so good, we decided to go! We set the reacher, the full main and set a waypoint for 5
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/11/11 20:16 LATITUDE: 15-57.98S LONGITUDE: 045-16.76E MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 10 WIND_DIR: SW CLOUDS: 20% VISIBILITY: 12 BARO: 1015.4 AIR_TEMP: 24.4C COMMENT: Beach House -ANCHORED- Baly Bay…reassess tomorrow! Nice and calm in here! Stars are out again. Will look at the weather in the a.m. Nighty nite!.. Scott and Sleepy Nik
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/11/11 09:42 LATITUDE: 15-50.07S LONGITUDE: 045-30.74E COURSE: 238T SPEED: 6.9 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 13 WIND_DIR: NW WAVE_HT: 0.2M WAVE_PER: 4 SWELL_DIR: W SWELL_HT: 0.5M SWELL_PER: 6 CLOUDS: 20% VISIBILITY: 25 BARO: 1015 AIR_TEMP: 31.7C COMMENT: Beach House – EN ROUTE- Richard\’s Bay South Africa!….. A change of plans! The weather looks as
Majunga….. 09 Novemeber 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, Well, the guide book and Des and Nell of \”Gambit\” said, \”don\’t go there!\”… The guide book further says, when the prison closed…all the thieves and murderers came here….. Food for thought. However, I wanted to top off fuel and go to a last market before we
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/11/09 12:05 LATITUDE: 15-43.67S LONGITUDE: 046-18.94E COURSE: 108T SPEED: 0.6 MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 15 WIND_DIR: W CLOUDS: 50% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1011.1 AIR_TEMP: 31.7C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED- Mahajunga, Madagascar…. One day only! Much more infrastructure than Hellville. The port is very industrial. Very shallow anchorage with strong tidal flow. We\’re
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/11/08 11:18 LATITUDE: 15-16.51S LONGITUDE: 047-04.29E MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 9 WIND_DIR: NW CLOUDS: 40% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1011.6 AIR_TEMP: 31.1C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED- Nosy Longany, Madagascar….desolate! We\’re about 5 miles inside the entrance behind a lovely little point; a small small village is here. It\’s blowing 17 knots outside, but