Kupang to Rinca Island, Komodo Park Day 2 - Lehok Uwadi

Caduceus
Martin and Elizabeth Bevan
Sat 24 Oct 2015 09:45

Position           08:46.54 S 119:39.34 E

Date                1045 (UTC+8) Saturday 24 October 2015

Distance run    in 22hrs 45mins 150nm over the ground, 144nm through the water

Trip total         249nm over the ground, 234nm through the water

Arrived at        Lehok Uwadi, Rinca Island, Indonesia

 

This was a day of motoring with for most of the time zero wind.  Fortunately there is a good west going current which helped us along.  We did manage a couple of hours sailing as we approached the destination, once again the land breeze effect.

 

Dawn and first sight of land through the haze was beautiful

 

Charts are going to be entertaining.  Compare the yellow land per the chart with the radar image in purple of where the land actually is and you can see that our original waypoint (blue cross) would have been aground

 

 

and our track into Lehok Uwadi is over the marked land.

 

Definitely the time for eyeball navigation

 

We have the entrance to Lehok Uwadi visual

 

Google Earth overlay on OpenCPN.  Safe and sound at anchor

 

Using downloaded Google Earth overlays on the PC based charting software OpenCPN shows the world as it actually is with the chart shadowed under the overlay