La Vagabonde's crossing

[Cherod]

Originally Posted by Pelagic

I am just blown away by how well you guys can display this weather prognosis data for different Met Agencies and monitor/compare for confidence levels.... Thanks Terje

Totally !! Question , to be able to do so do you need to have subscriptions to the various agencies ( eg windy , predict ) if so what does it cost , I appreciate that full ocean going systems are not needed for more local journeys so basic stuff will do .

[Cherod]

Originally Posted by atoll

they are just behind the vee,or open the predict wind in one tab and windy in another,change the scale move the map to correspond,wet finger and leave a dab of spit on your screen where they are,change tabs ,hey presto wet patch is their position......clean screen

Ha ha , I think I know what you mean but don’t think I could manage that on my home Comp , certainly not on my phone at work !! Predict does me ok , even now know how to get their heading ,,, ah , progress !! ( which seems to be pretty perfect for them this morning )

[Cherod]

Progress looks good , still in fairly good sailing conditions and no nearer the storm to their right , hopefully they can still get the tail of it for some good easting later , looks like tomo now ( 23rd )

[Poa]

Nikki just tweeted this 54 minutes ago:

Just got in from packing the spinnaker away on the bow and furling the jib in a squall. Now back sailing with full canvas.

[Poa]

Also, 22 hours ago Nikki posted to Instagram:


"The sky preceding the last 24 hours - the phrase rang true" (with a stunning purple sky picture)

[Poa]

9 hours ago Riley Whitelum posted a picture on Instagram showing someone high up there inspecting the mast. Hard to tell who it is with the low resolution of these satellite-transmitted images, probably Nikki.


The text: "Mid Atlantic rig inspection. Necessito and all good."

[atoll]

Originally Posted by Poa

9 hours ago Riley Whitelum posted a picture on Instagram showing someone high up there inspecting the mast. Hard to tell who it is with the low resolution of these satellite-transmitted images, probably Nikki.


The text: "Mid Atlantic rig inspection. Necessito and all good."

it was a photo of the logo on the sail cover,there just happened to be someone up the mast at the time

[Cherod]

Currently 12 knots , the “ pedal is down “

[belizesailor]

Perfect timing on the storm for dramatic effect! Hopefully thats all it becomes for them.

[atoll]

Originally Posted by belizesailor

Perfect timing on the storm for dramatic effect! Hopefully thats all it becomes for them.

next thing you know they will be blaming the storm on global warming.......
who would have thought they might have a hurricane during hurricane season

[HeinSdL]

Originally Posted by atoll

next thing you know they will be blaming the storm on global warming.......
who would have thought they might have a hurricane during hurricane season

I thought this was off-topic. We can make this topic part of the thread if you wish!

[Cherod]

Best left in the silly statements page

[atoll]

Originally Posted by HeinSdL

I thought this was off-topic. We can make this topic part of the thread if you wish!

what part of hurricane is not weather related?

[Cherod]

I am wondering why they went so far south initially , I would have thot jumping in the Gulf Stream might have been useful for north and eastings , was
It dictated by wind / weather systems ? I tried checking on the early link for predict but can only get current one

[atoll]

Originally Posted by Cherod

I am wondering why they went so far south initially , I would have thot jumping in the Gulf Stream might have been useful for north and eastings , was
It dictated by wind / weather systems ? I tried checking on the early link for predict but can only get current one

gulf stream is way north of them among all those pretty purple bits on the weather map.
https://www.windy.com/-Show---add-mo...9,5,i:pressure