We found the Westerlies ...??!!?
Blue Sky's Voyage
George & Michael
Sat 20 Feb 2010 23:29
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Hello Friends
"3:10N
106:35W"
We motored south through a very wet night
and made good progress so that we're now enjoying the first signs of the south
equatorial current which will help us west. (The S Equatorial current is in fact
N of the Equator - centred on about 1 degree N.)
Amazingly we saw another tuna boat this
afternoon - 1,650 miles from Panama where a lot seem to be based. So the next
time you complain about the price of tuna, just think of the fuel the fishermen
have burned to go and get it for you.
The rains have now eased off and it could
with minor imagination be described as dry if not exactly sunny. The winds have
resumed, rather curiously from the west, but they are enabling us to make a
course of about 200 which is fine for the moment.
Judging from NOAA http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/MIAHSFEP2.shtml?text our beloved homepage, there is quite a bit of turbulence and
convection around this area of the doldrums and this explains the weird winds
and rather excessive rainfall. We'll soon be far enough south to be,
literally, in the clear.
Our clocks are slightly off today so that
we're having coffee at 1600 instead of tea, but in all other respects, all is
well on Blue Sky.
Best Wishes
George, Michael, Alex and Simon
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