YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/06/29 01:23 LATITUDE: 12-11.99S LONGITUDE: 136-42.20E MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 4 WIND_DIR: 160T CLOUDS: 50% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1014.6 AIR_TEMP: 27.8C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Gove Yacht Club, 356 nm/2 days 2 hours… Hot and calm here.
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/06/28 23:14 LATITUDE: 12-05.65S LONGITUDE: 136-43.13E COURSE: 222T SPEED: 6.7 MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 4 WIND_DIR: 160T CLOUDS: 50% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1015 AIR_TEMP: 28.3C COMMENT: Beach House – Enroute – Nhullaby Bay, Gove in 2 hours…. now motoring
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/06/28 05:31 LATITUDE: 11-43.41S LONGITUDE: 138-00.35E COURSE: 222T SPEED: 6.7 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 15 WIND_DIR: SSE SWELL_DIR: S SWELL_HT: 1.0M SWELL_PER: 6 CLOUDS: 65% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1014 AIR_TEMP: 23.9C COMMENT: Beach House – Enroute – Gove, Expect A.M. arrival……Seas calming
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/06/28 03:35 LATITUDE: 11-31.41S LONGITUDE: 138-55.96E COURSE: 259T SPEED: 7.4 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 15 WIND_DIR: SSE SWELL_DIR: S SWELL_HT: 1.0M SWELL_PER: 6 CLOUDS: 75% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1013 AIR_TEMP: 27.8C COMMENT: Beach House – Enroute – Gove, sailing since last night.. Should arrive tomorrow early a.m. A bit bumpy out here….
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/06/27 10:03 LATITUDE: 11-03.90S LONGITUDE: 141-00.18E COURSE: 256T SPEED: 5.3 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 10 WIND_DIR: S SWELL_DIR: SSW SWELL_HT: 1.0M SWELL_PER: 6 CLOUDS: 85% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1013.9 AIR_TEMP: 25.6C COMMENT: Beach House – Enroute – Gove, Northern Territory – Australia. Just started sailing… \”on the wind\”…..
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/06/27 03:44 LATITUDE: 10-53.65S LONGITUDE: 141-45.35E COURSE: 257T SPEED: 8.1 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 3 WIND_DIR: SE SWELL_DIR: SSW SWELL_HT: 0.5M SWELL_PER: 5 CLOUDS: 50% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1013.5 AIR_TEMP: 30.6C COMMENT: Beach House – ENROUTE – Gove, NT – Australia…Motoring, no wind….. At this speed, 40 hours to go. Hoping for wind….
. To see the SHIP\’S BLOGS associated with this PHOTO GALLERY: Click the following links…… Morris Island – Portland Roads – Cape Grenville & Margaret Bay – Escape River – Escape River Pearls & \”The Top\” .
25 June 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, The Torres Strait Islands are a group of islands, (a few dozen) of which 18 are inhabited. They lie between just a few miles from Papua New Guinea in the north and Australia in the south. They are the islands which differentiate the \”Pacific\” from the Arafura Sea;
Torres Strait Islands…Thursday Island….. Read More »
24 June 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, Today we went ashore at Cape York and did the vigil to \”The Top\” sign at the very tip of Cape York (The MOST northern piece of land on the Australian Continent). Interestingly, we did this with about 100 of our \”closest friends\”!…:-) It turns out, this is
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/06/24 04:33 LATITUDE: 10-50.87S LONGITUDE: 142-21.78E MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 15 WIND_DIR: SE CLOUDS: 85% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1014.3 AIR_TEMP: 27.2C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Seisa, (at the north entrance to the Gulf of Carpinteria)….. Correction, GPS hadn\’t updated!…. resending