Eight Days a Week, Welcome to Madagascar!….. 25 October 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere, +3 UTC) Dear F&F, Well we\’re here! 8 days, 10 hours and overall, a pretty nice trip. Friends Dave and Kathy on \”Sunflower\” should be here tomorrow afternoon and may be in for a blustery night according to the weather. There are two […]
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/10/25 12:54 LATITUDE: 12-26.81S LONGITUDE: 048-46.10E MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 18 WIND_DIR: NE CLOUDS: 75% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1012.2 AIR_TEMP: 30.6C COMMENT: Beach House -ANCHORED- Andranoamby Bay, NW Madagascar. 2 other French Cats here….. Trip to here was 8 days, 10 hours. We will stay the night and move south toward Sakitia Island
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/10/25 05:50 LATITUDE: 11-56.63S LONGITUDE: 049-15.67E COURSE: 270T SPEED: 8.5 MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 23 WIND_DIR: SE CLOUDS: 30% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1015.6 AIR_TEMP: 23.9C COMMENT: Beach House -En-ROUTE- Chagos to Madagascar – Rounded the \”Top\” – Cap d\’Ambre, Madagascar
At The \”Top\”, Cap d\’ Ambre, Madagascar….. 25 October 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere +3 UTC) Dear F&F, Land Ho! at 5:30 local time, we spotted several hills ashore on Northern Madagascar from about 25 miles away. We\’ve flown the spinnaker all night and it was a lovely night and sail. The winds were from behind us
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/10/25 02:12 LATITUDE: 12-04.94S LONGITUDE: 049-45.92E COURSE: 281T SPEED: 8.2 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 18 WIND_DIR: SE WAVE_HT: 0.0M WAVE_PER: 0 SWELL_DIR: SSE SWELL_HT: 1.2M SWELL_PER: 8 CLOUDS: 30% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1015.6 AIR_TEMP: 23.9C COMMENT: Beach House -En-ROUTE- Chagos to Madagascar. Day 8 – 176 miles Twenty five miles to go to
To see Wikipedia about Chagos Archipelago: CLICK HERE To see Wikipedia about Salomon Atoll: CLICK HERE To view the SHIP\’S BLOGS associated with our voyage from Cocos Island to Chagos Archipeligo in chronological order, Click the following links here: Sept. 25th, 2012 – First #1 #2 #3
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A Slow Day….. 24 October 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, Yesterday was a slow one. It started out fast but then we hit a strong and unexpected \”head current\” which retarded our speed up to 2 knots for awhile! This along with the diminishing winds (as predicted), have slowed us considerably. Yesterday\’s run was a
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/10/24 02:12 LATITUDE: 12-25.23S LONGITUDE: 052-43.48E COURSE: 266T SPEED: 5.5 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 11 WIND_DIR: SE WAVE_HT: 0.0M WAVE_PER: 0 SWELL_DIR: SSE SWELL_HT: 1.5M SWELL_PER: 8 CLOUDS: 40% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1014.4 AIR_TEMP: 25.0C COMMENT: Beach House -En-ROUTE- Chagos to Madagascar. Day 7 – 160 miles (195 to go to the top).
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/10/23 02:10 LATITUDE: 12-10.12S LONGITUDE: 055-25.62E COURSE: 268T SPEED: 7.1 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 20 WIND_DIR: SSE WAVE_HT: 0.1M WAVE_PER: 7 SWELL_DIR: SSE SWELL_HT: 2.2M SWELL_PER: 8 CLOUDS: 70% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1015.2 AIR_TEMP: 24.4C COMMENT: Beach House – En-ROUTE – Chagos to Madagascar. Day 6 – 197 miles (back to back)! A
We\’re Getting Close….. 23 October 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, Last night was a beautiful sail. The seas at only 2 meters, long and pretty smooth. The wind has been around 17-20 knots just aft the port beam, but we\’re able to carry our genoa winged out to weather on the pole. We\’re starting to
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