Category Archives: South Pacific

Ready to go

No trip to town today. Ben and I used the morning to clean up the starboard hull and both props. After doing this I decided to set the first reef into the mainsail as that is what we’re likely to … Continue reading

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Last night out

In the morning Helen and Ben took the water taxi into Nuku’alofa while I went ashore here to Big Mama’s for some internet and weather discussions. There weren’t too many people in Big Mama’s that morning so I was able … Continue reading

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Tonga Tracks

I’ve split our Tonga tracks into two parts. The first part is in and around the Vava’u group. View 2010 Tonga 1 in a larger map Part two is our travels through the Ha’apai group and then down here to … Continue reading

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Looks like Thursday morning

The underlying dataset that drives the wind predictions we all look at is called GFS (Global Forecast System) run by NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). The computer modeling is run 4 times per day at 6 hour intervals starting … Continue reading

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Staying put

We had another weather session ashore which, for me, ended up being more of a tech support session. I enjoy this sort of thing so it was a fun way to spend the morning. The weather models we all downloaded … Continue reading

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