Sunday, November 12, 2006

The Calm Before the Storm

The winds are very light today and we are flying our large downwind spinnaker. A high pressure system is moving northeast below us and will be followed by a low pressure system in the next day or two. Winds around high pressure move clockwise while those around a low pressure system move counter-clockwise. The result for us will be this double vortex funnel of wind, something akin to the ball return at a bowling alley. The weather reports are a bit conflicting at the moment, so we will see what happens. Yesterday, we had a section of our main sail snap out of its track. The bolt holding it sheared off, but we were able to quickly repair it. All sails are doing great today. Best purchase of the trip so far: a $20 wide-base coffee mug that doesn’t tip over.

Posted for Shane

1 Comments:

Blogger Botanika said...

Does the blog let people post comments? If I could it would be
this link:

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/maps/NovaScotia.shtml

which has some buoy data for places ~somewhat close to the
path.

or this one?

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/radial_search.php?lat1=49N&lon1=62W&uom=E&dist=100&ot=A&time=12

just being curious about the weather. I kid you not I feel queasy right now thinking about 15 ft waves.

Cheers,
-Seth

Sunday, November 12, 2006 5:46:00 PM  

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