Can anyone contact Jeanne via radio or winlink? Her website is generating a message: "The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit....
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Can anyone contact Jeanne via radio or winlink? Her website is generating a message: "The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit....
SHSS alumnus Jeanne Socrates has left Victoria, BC on her latest non-stop singlehanded circumnavigation attempt. Last seen today on terrestrial AIS at : 48.4068° / -125.216°
She did the SHTP in...
Late season, not good. The link TO Kevin's "Backbeat" log:
https://backbeatsailing.wordpress.com
And a write up about the abandonment:...
Best guess N24°28 W151°57, much farther south and east than I guessed from initial reports.
The map image appears to show the path of the Coast Guard aircraft until intercepting the Walkabout on...
Here is a detailed story about the rescue of Walkabout. They were dismasted by the rescue ship and went under the stern once. Ugh. "The boat got drawn under the counter and disappeared. After a few...
Here are the SST plots for the SHTP return time-frame (August 10th-ish), for 2012 and 2014. Yes, it was over the top hot this year. Notice the 26.65C (80F) contour line. In 2012 it was way south of...
Hurricane Pollo’s predicted path, according to NOAA, is to the immediate west of Cabo . . . exactly where NOAA’s predicted path was for Odile, until the day it hit Cabo.
Interesting year. The forecasts generally showed the track to the west of Cabo. The storm hit as a Cat 3. It could actually hit Phoenix as a tropical depression. This mornings wind history plot...
The settings needed to generate these Sea Surface Temperature maps is shown below.
The website is:...
Getting north of Lat 25 had no meaning this year. It was equally warm at 30 north. Rather more important to get east. The sea surface temperatures must have been similar in 1992 when Iniki charged...
Still looking for signs of Scaramouche. Last seen drag racing with Julio?
Yellow brick says the General is about 70nm off of Santa Barbara. Looks like he may be dropping by Santa Barbara or the Channel islands.
Trying to cover too much material for one. Translated; the water temperature due north of Kauai at latitude 30N is around 82F. The water due east of Puerta Vallarta is 87F. It is el Nino time and...
"Conclusion: 2014/15 El Niño is likely to rival 1997/98 and 1982/83 events, which were the largest in the last 140 years or so."
Paul Beckwith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubsV5-WfVsQ
Paul...
Given the unprecedented amount of hot water north of latitude 25, we seem to have a "neo-niño" year. Prepare for unprecedented weather. Maybe "The Great San Diego Hurricane"?
Scaramouche is off shore based AIS. Does anyone know her position?
BTW Crabby, this statement was intended to be a heart felt compliment to Alan and the others. I am most impressed by the people who do this race competently in the smallest and lowest budget boats. I...
I haven't found a clear statement about the EPIRB yet. They are apparently using the Delorme to track the abandoned boat.
That homemade looking covered "patio" on the stern was obviously the last...
HONOLULU — Aug 11, 2014, 3:59 PM ET
Associated Press
A container ship crew on Monday rescued three people who were stranded in a sailboat off the Hawaiian islands for about 24 hours as Hurricane...
"A 42-foot sailboat with three people aboard is taking on water in Hurricane Julio and asking for Coast Guard help. The Coast Guard on Sunday said the vessel Walkabout is disabled in 30-foot seas...
Except for Kauai
"Wind data in particular supports the USGS assertion that hurricane damage has been low on all islands except for Kauai."
Apparently Kauai is too far from the hurricane shield...
Looks like Lightspeed may still be having problems with the ball of twine on his prop and rudder. He is waay north.
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The motivation was to save $50 on stainless. Any abrupt transition in a structural element can create local stresses that are 100s of times higher than in the surrounding material and nucleate a...
What happened to Lilya Vorobey on Widmat?
I hadn't noticed this before. Warriors Wish had a huge steel spreader "flange" to distribute force to the glass hull. That kept things watertight when the keel fatigued off.
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