15 09 266N 31 36 108W
Fair Do's VII, Atlantic 2008....
Professor John Shepherd
Sun 30 Nov 2008 06:07
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Morning Chris,
Hope all is well on the South Island, and that it
is not too cold after Gran Canaria.
Herewith the met scenario for 30/11/08 (nearly
Christmas, and nice and warm)/
Position: 15 09.146N 031 36.356W
Wind direction: 126 (dodgy
callibration)
Windspeed : 13Knts
Boatspeed: 8.4 Knts (Port Tack, A3)
Heading: 250 (port tack)
Ranges and history of last 12 - 24
hours:
Direction: 040 - 140 (140 on port and TWD gybes
through 50 degrees depending on strenght so heading most reliable source of
TWD)
Speed: 10 - 13 KNTS (occasionally a little more).
After dark we had pretty cloud driven pressure and saw 18 - 20 knots, which led
to a peel to A5 as we are trying to bag A2 after constant 18 KNTS at night, as,
we need it in our inventory and find it very hard to steer deeper
angles with a big running chute at night in sea. Went back to A2 after
prolonged light spell at about 1245 AM.
Heading: gybed for a couple of hours around
yesterday lunch (on to port to try and get a better run in to the slack
pressure) and maintain our position between the immediate fleet around us (230),
gybed back onto starboard (on rhumb for a new imaginary waypoint we have set for
mid-atlantic which we think gives us a good route through the driftathon later).
On starboard yesterday had about 283 (lower in pressure and right waves) and got
let down through the afternoon/evening so we were the new rhumb of 277. With A5
could not get as deep (and with A2 prior to gybe) so had to compromise on
keeping south of rhumb a little.
Our present waypoint for getting
into driftville is 14 01.144N 040 17.34W - we felt this would skirt us
round the edge of the worst, give us a route out south and offer shortest
distance across if we get involved and have to sail through it. Would be good to
get your thoughts on this.......
Regards,
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