23 June 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, Today was quite a day for the crew of good ship \”Beach House\”. We were hailed and invited by Bronwyn and Rusty of \”Torres Strait Pearls\” off their residence at the Escape River. After a coffee and some chat, Nikki and I took a serious look at some […]
Escape River Pearls & Rounding \”The Top\”….. Read More »
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/06/23 07:30 LATITUDE: 10-41.29S LONGITUDE: 142-31.54E COURSE: 276T SPEED: 0.8 MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 19 WIND_DIR: SE CLOUDS: 35% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1014.1 AIR_TEMP: 25.6C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Cape York, \”The Top of OZ\”….
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/06/23 07:07 LATITUDE: 10-40.65S LONGITUDE: 142-31.92E COURSE: 310T SPEED: 8.4 MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 19 WIND_DIR: SE CLOUDS: 35% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1014.2 AIR_TEMP: 25.6C COMMENT: Beach House – ROUNDING & ABEAM – Cape York, \”The Top of OZ\”….
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/06/22 06:52 LATITUDE: 10-58.04S LONGITUDE: 142-40.82E MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 15 WIND_DIR: SE CLOUDS: 20% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1012.9 AIR_TEMP: 28.9C COMMENT: Beach House -ANCHORED – Escape River, lots of pearl farms…
22 June 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, We traveled 71 miles today having left Cape Grenville at 0645 local time. The first 15 miles we motor sailed in what was the lightest wind day we\’ve seen. After that, we had a brilliant 40 mile spinnaker run with 13-19 knots of wind almost directly astern. When
21 June 2012 Welcome to the shortest day of the year here in the Southern Hemisphere! We got off a bit later than usual, but today\’s journey was only 45 miles. The sail was yet again brilliant. That\’s 4 out of the last 5 days. We had 22-30 knots mostly from 150 degrees aft on
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/06/21 04:20 LATITUDE: 11-57.42S LONGITUDE: 143-12.53E MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 12 WIND_DIR: SE CLOUDS: 60% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1013.7 AIR_TEMP: 28.9C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Margaret Bay, Cape Grenville…. I\’m going to start putting these notes on the home page at: www.svbeachhouse.com They will be the new \”blog of the day\”
20 June 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, We found the \”divers grave\” on Morris Island. Unfortunately in great disrepair. As there was apparently once a crocodile sighted here, we did not venture into the scrub. Unfortunately, an incredible amount of plastic flip flops and bottles are littered everywhere on these otherwise pristine sand islets throughout
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/06/20 05:46 LATITUDE: 12-35.60S LONGITUDE: 143-24.46E MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 17 WIND_DIR: ESE CLOUDS: 100% VISIBILITY: 10 BARO: 1014.7 AIR_TEMP: 23.9C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Portland Roads, nice sail, cloudy, drizzle….. 60 miles in tandem with s/v \”Kakadu\” from NZ. Cape Grenville tomorrow. Getting close to \”The Top\”…
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2012/06/19 04:56 LATITUDE: 13-29.44S LONGITUDE: 143-43.36E COURSE: 019T SPEED: 1.6 MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 24 WIND_DIR: ESE CLOUDS: 85% VISIBILITY: 10 BARO: 1015.9 AIR_TEMP: 26.7C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Morris Island, NOW, LOTS of Wind!… One hour before we arrived, the wind went from zero to 25 out of the ESE.