Day 163/41
Noon Position: 01 43N 150 52W
Course/Speed: NNE4
Wind: SExE 7-10
Bar: 1009, steady
Sea: E4
Sky: Overcast (alto cumulus and cumulus)
Cabin Temperature: 88
Water Temperature: 84
Sail: All plain sail, reaching.
Motorboatin’ in the inner sounds gave us a chance to play with the camera exposure. Photo by James Austrums.
Day 162/40
Noon Position: 00 90S 152 00W
Course/Speed: NNE6+
Wind: SE13-17
Bar: 1010, steady
Sea: E5
Sky: Clear
Cabin Temperature: 87
Water Temperature...
Pwllheli SC hosted Harken 29er Grand Prix 5 on the May Bank Holiday weekend. Saturday saw sailors gradually arriving, with some taking advantage of the sunny weather and steady (if light breeze) to do a bit of sailing.
Day 161/39
Noon Position: 02 22S 153 08W
Course/Speed: NNE6-7
Wind: SE14-18
Bar: 1011, falling
Sea: E6
Sky: Cum 20%
Cabin Temperature: 89
Water Temperature...
Day 160/38
Noon Position: 04 45S 153 44W
Course/Speed: NNE6+
Wind: ESE20
Bar: 1011, falling
Sea: E8
Sky: Cumulus to 20%
Cabin Temperature: 87
Water Temperature...
Totem cruises the Sea of Cortez; in about three weeks, we hauls at the Cabrales shipyard in Puerto Peñasco, a small harbor surrounded by the Sonora desert. Typically, boats can go a few years between haulouts.
On May 23rd Garmin shut down the old way of distributing ActiveCaptain (AC) data and turned on the new ActiveCaptain Community (ACC) servers. All the mobile apps, charting programs and MFDs programmed to work with AC stopped updating ...
Day 159/37
Noon Position: 06 58S 154 05W
Course/Speed: N5-6
Wind: E15-18 (20 – 25 all afternoon)
Bar: 1011, falling
Sea: E5
Sky: Cumulus to 20%
Cabin Temperature...
Trust me, this was way sketchier than it looks in the video! That breakwater isn’t far off Isbjorn’s bow…
“In the high latitudes, you’ll have a long stretch with no wind, and you kind of feel comfortable with it.
The NYC is running Adult Sail Training courses for all levels (newcomers, rusty sailors, improvers...) starting on Monday 11th June or Wednesday 13th.
Day 158/36
Noon Position: 09 15S 154 10W
Course/Speed: NNE6+
Wind: ESE20
Bar: 1010, falling
Sea: E6-8
Sky: Cumulus to 50%
Cabin Temperature: 88
Water Temperature...
Menu weekend 01/06/2018
Starters,
Yakitori chicken skewers, sesame seed and Asian salad.
Potted Crayfish tails, ciabatta toast roast onions.
Mains,
Beef burger...
#234. Maik Brotzmann has been a friend of the podcast now for a few years, having joined Mia & I in Annapolis two years back to attend one of our Celestial workshops. He grew up in East Germany and lived through the fall of the Berlin wall...