Day 7, weather and ships….. 02 October 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, Yesterday was a nice sailing day, the evening got a bit cranky. The winds are definitely \”northern hemisphere\”. There is a small low pressure system now between us and Chagos which is moving toward Chagos. This should allow us to follow it in […]
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/10/02 01:56 LATITUDE: 08-10.98S LONGITUDE: 078-44.46E COURSE: 293T SPEED: 7.8 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 21 WIND_DIR: ENE WAVE_HT: 0.2M WAVE_PER: 6 SWELL_DIR: E SWELL_HT: 2.0M SWELL_PER: 10 CLOUDS: 70% VISIBILITY: 10 BARO: 1015.2 AIR_TEMP: 28.3C COMMENT: Beach House – EN ROUTE – Salomon Atoll, Chagos Archipelago. 161 nm last 24 hours I\’ll post
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/10/01 03:08 LATITUDE: 09-09.98S LONGITUDE: 081-06.57E COURSE: 291T SPEED: 6.6 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 18 WIND_DIR: NE WAVE_HT: 0.1M WAVE_PER: 6 SWELL_DIR: E SWELL_HT: 2.0M SWELL_PER: 10 CLOUDS: 100% VISIBILITY: 3 BARO: 1015.8 AIR_TEMP: 26.7C COMMENT: Beach House – EN ROUTE – Salomon Atoll, Chagos Archipelago. Day 6, 155 nm We have FOUR
Day 5, Transition? A message from afar….. 30 September 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, The last 24 hours has been interesting. Yesterday, we were in more frequent squalls which came from the south, crossed over us, rained on us and moved on. The winds shifted a bit, but mostly the intensity ranged; 12-28 knots. With
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/09/30 02:31 LATITUDE: 10-10.17S LONGITUDE: 083-31.95E COURSE: 295T SPEED: 6.6 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 14 WIND_DIR: NNE WAVE_HT: 0.1M WAVE_PER: 6 SWELL_DIR: ESE SWELL_HT: 1.7M SWELL_PER: 10 CLOUDS: 90% VISIBILITY: 10 BARO: 1015.4 AIR_TEMP: 27.8C COMMENT: Beach House – EN ROUTE – Salomon Atoll, Chagos Archipelago. Day 5, 153 nm We may be
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/09/29 02:13 LATITUDE: 10-49.21S LONGITUDE: 086-04.63E COURSE: 289T SPEED: 7.0 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 19 WIND_DIR: ESE WAVE_HT: 0.3M WAVE_PER: 7 SWELL_DIR: SSE SWELL_HT: 3.0M SWELL_PER: 10 CLOUDS: 90% VISIBILITY: 10 BARO: 1016.3 AIR_TEMP: 25.6C COMMENT: Beach House – EN ROUTE – Salomon Atoll, Chagos Archipelago 167 nm last 24 hours Estimate passage
Day Four to Chagos – breakage and a fix!….. 29 September 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, The miles are clicking away, but overall this passage has been fairly slow. We\’ll most likely do around 155 miles today. I always do my planning on around 170 miles/day. The reason is squalls. We get 20-22 knots for
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/09/28 02:08 LATITUDE: 11-44.89S LONGITUDE: 088-42.02E COURSE: 301T SPEED: 8.7 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 19 WIND_DIR: ESE WAVE_HT: 0.3M WAVE_PER: 7 SWELL_DIR: SSE SWELL_HT: 2.7M SWELL_PER: 10 CLOUDS: 75% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1016.5 AIR_TEMP: 27.2C COMMENT: Beach House – EN ROUTE – Salomon Atoll, Chagos Archipelago Wind up and down, now UP! about
Settling In….. 28 September 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, Last night was night three for us and it takes about till the third day to settle in on a long passage. Since we\’d made a few three day passages in the last month, it felt like we were more or less still in our routine.
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/09/27 01:45 LATITUDE: 12-05.99S LONGITUDE: 091-18.10E COURSE: 277T SPEED: 5.7 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 14 WIND_DIR: ESE WAVE_HT: 0.2M WAVE_PER: 7 SWELL_DIR: SSE SWELL_HT: 2.5M SWELL_PER: 10 CLOUDS: 95% VISIBILITY: 10 BARO: 1018.1 AIR_TEMP: 25.6C COMMENT: Beach House – EN ROUTE – Salomon Atoll, Chagos Archipelago. 161 nm day 2 run. We\’ve a