Dear F&F, September 26th, 2011 (Eastern Hemisphere) Today marks 4 years since \”Beach House\” left Marina del Rey, California. Needless to say, much has happened. Two days ago, we were having a brilliant spinnaker run which lasted 16 hours. At 4 a.m., the wind started to pipe up to 25 knots so prudence dictated dropping […]
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2011/09/23 00:00 LATITUDE: 16-12.43S LONGITUDE: 168-33.18E COURSE: 296T SPEED: 6.7 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 15 WIND_DIR: 102T WAVE_HT: 0.0M WAVE_PER: 8 SWELL_DIR: E SWELL_HT: 2.0M SWELL_PER: 8 CLOUDS: 95% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1014 AIR_TEMP: 25.0C SEA_TEMP: 25.0C COMMENT: Beach House – EN ROUTE – Luganville, 25 miles from Pentecost Island, hopefully Luganville by
Dear F&F, September 25th, 2011 (Eastern Hemisphere) Day 2 run: 180 nm Position: 16 deg 29.5 min South 170 deg 48.2 min East Speed: Ave = 7 knots Wind: 21 knots, ESE Swell: 6.5 feet (2 meters) Air: 81 deg F/ 27.2 deg C Baro: 1015 steady Yesterday was so nice out here, we set
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2011/09/23 00:00 LATITUDE: 16-33.34S LONGITUDE: 171-11.99E COURSE: 279T SPEED: 7.2 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 21 WIND_DIR: 110T WAVE_HT: 0.5M WAVE_PER: 8 SWELL_DIR: ESE SWELL_HT: 2.0M SWELL_PER: 8 CLOUDS: 40% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1015 AIR_TEMP: 27.8C SEA_TEMP: 26.1C COMMENT: Beach House – EN ROUTE – Luganville, Espiritu Santo Island – just shy of 2/3rds
Dear F&F, September 24th 2011 (Eastern Hemisphere) End of Day one: 175 nm 312 mile to Pentecost Island Passage, 380 miles to Luganville, Espiritu Santo Island – Vanuatu 16 deg 41 min S 174 deg 21 min E A lovely first days sail, we put the spinnaker up mid day today, winds are SSE at
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Dear F&F, September 21st – 23rd, 2011 (Eastern Hemisphere) We went up to check and see if the nice dive sites off the end of Yasawairara were dive able, but the weather was just too strong. So instead, we set sail for the 12 miles back to Nanuya-Sewa. We had a brilliant ride in fantastic
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2011/09/23 19:51 LATITUDE: 16-42.02S LONGITUDE: 174-23.18E COURSE: 274T SPEED: 8.0 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 16 WIND_DIR: 141T WAVE_HT: 0.5M WAVE_PER: 8 SWELL_DIR: ESE SWELL_HT: 1.8M SWELL_PER: 8 CLOUDS: 85% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1015 AIR_TEMP: 27.8C COMMENT: Beach House – EN ROUTE – Luganville, Vanuatu – 1/3rd the way – 173 nm for day
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2011/09/22 18:42 LATITUDE: 16-56.61S LONGITUDE: 177-22.08E MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 4 WIND_DIR: 140T CLOUDS: 85% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1015 AIR_TEMP: 23.9C COMMENT: Beach House – DEPARTING – Nanuya-Sewa Island – Fiji for Espiritu Santo Island – Vanuatu
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2011/09/21 01:24 LATITUDE: 16-56.61S LONGITUDE: 177-22.08E COURSE: 128T SPEED: 0.7 MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 13 WIND_DIR: 096T CLOUDS: 20% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1015 AIR_TEMP: 28.9C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Nanuya-Sewa Island. We\’ll depart day after tomorrow…..
Dear F&F, September 18th – 20th, 2011 We headed up the coast to Yasawa Island\’s Narara Beach. The anchorage was perfect. The water a calm cobalt blue to turquoise in color. We dove \”Paradise Point\” and the reef off Vawa Island. Paradise Point is also a surf spot, but was calm today and offered a
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