Monthly Archives: November 2010

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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Looking at GRIBs

Incidentally, If you want to look at what I’m looking at when I’m viewing GRIBs derived from GFS data then : 1. Send an email to query@saildocs.com with any Subject and the body of the email being: send GFS:18S,51S,140E,160W|2,2|0,6..168|PRMSL,WIND,WAVES,RAIN 2. … 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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Weather or not

The morning weather session turned out to be quite useful. Members of 6 or 7 boats came ashore and we all sat around a long table with out laptops looking at various weather sources. There was a lot of discussion … Continue reading

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