YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/10/22 02:04 LATITUDE: 12-01.36S LONGITUDE: 058-46.39E COURSE: 264T SPEED: 8.0 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 23 WIND_DIR: SSE WAVE_HT: 0.2M WAVE_PER: 7 SWELL_DIR: SSE SWELL_HT: 2.5M SWELL_PER: 8 CLOUDS: 80% VISIBILITY: 10 BARO: 1015.5 AIR_TEMP: 24.4C COMMENT: Beach House -En-ROUTE- Chagos to Madagascar. Day 5 – 197 miles New blog posted at www.svbeachhouse.com Three […]
Thoughts from the West Indian Ocean….. 22 October 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, We left Los Angeles, California 5 years ago. So much has happened. Yesterday \”Beach House\” was literally half way round the world from where we started. Playing on the old riddle, \”How far can you run into the forest?\”…..\”Half way, as beyond
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/10/21 02:03 LATITUDE: 11-46.40S LONGITUDE: 062-07.66E COURSE: 269T SPEED: 7.8 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 18 WIND_DIR: SE WAVE_HT: 0.2M WAVE_PER: 7 SWELL_DIR: SSE SWELL_HT: 2.8M SWELL_PER: 7 CLOUDS: 90% VISIBILITY: 10 BARO: 1015.3 AIR_TEMP: 23.9C COMMENT: Beach House -En-ROUTE- Chagos to Madagascar. Day 4, 178 nm Changed course to head for Cap d\’Ambre.
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/10/20 02:00 LATITUDE: 10-19.43S LONGITUDE: 064-47.59E COURSE: 238T SPEED: 8.2 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 23 WIND_DIR: SE WAVE_HT: 0.5M WAVE_PER: 6 SWELL_DIR: SSE SWELL_HT: 3.0M SWELL_PER: 10 CLOUDS: 60% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1014.3 AIR_TEMP: 30.0C COMMENT: Beach House -En-ROUTE- Chagos to Madagascar. Day 3 – 192 nm. We\’re heading for an intermediate waypoint
Thoughts from the Mascarene Plateau….. 20 October 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, As I begin this blog, it\’s 6:45 a.m. local time and I\’ve just had to wipe the spray from the cockpit off the keyboard! It\’s a bit \”boisterous\” out here…:-) We\’ve had two reefs in the main and the staysail up since sunset
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/10/19 01:54 LATITUDE: 08-32.75S LONGITUDE: 067-24.05E COURSE: 248T SPEED: 10.8 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 20 WIND_DIR: SE WAVE_HT: 0.2M WAVE_PER: 6 SWELL_DIR: SSE SWELL_HT: 2.5M SWELL_PER: 10 CLOUDS: 70% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1013.9 AIR_TEMP: 28.9C COMMENT: Beach House – En-ROUTE – Chagos to Madagascar. 173 nm last 24 hours. New blog posted at:
What a difference a day makes!….. 19 October 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, We\’re just completing our second day at sea and surprisingly, we\’ll do around 170+ miles. I say surprisingly, because yesterday we had at least a one knot \”counter current\”. This is a phenomenon where the counter clockwise circulation of the Southern Hemisphere
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/10/18 01:53 LATITUDE: 06-58.67S LONGITUDE: 069-50.58E COURSE: 231T SPEED: 6.8 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 14 WIND_DIR: ESE WAVE_HT: 0.2M WAVE_PER: 6 SWELL_DIR: SSE SWELL_HT: 2.3M SWELL_PER: 10 CLOUDS: 50% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1014.2 AIR_TEMP: 29.4C COMMENT: Beach House -En-ROUTE- Peros Banhos Atoll, Chagos Archipelago to Madagascar. New blog posted at www.svbeachhouse.com s/v \”Sunflower\”
Photographs and Memories….. 18 October 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, We left Peros Banhos yesterday around 10:30 a.m. and had a slow but lovely sail all day. Just after mid-night (why is it always mid-night?…:-)) the wind came up a bit too strong for our sail plan and we changed the reacher out for the
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Peros Banhos….. 17 October 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, Well, we tried to leave Salomon yesterday and we did! However, there was virtually NO wind and as we were going right by Peros Banhos Atoll, so we stopped for the night. We anchored off the old pier (which is defunct); it no longer connects to