by Rich Wilson | Jan 17, 2017 | Ship's Logs
“Rich Wilson aboard Great American IV. And behind me, is the southern ocean and Cape Horn, that we passed, about 29 miles off, this morning, going past Diego Ramirez Island. Now we’re heading north. Typically a question is always how do you get past Staten...
by Rich Wilson | Jan 16, 2017 | Ship's Logs
I’m going to you a show a little bit of a primer about why we’ve chosen our route here, out around the Continental Shelf off Tierra del Fuego: https://youtu.be/TBaSAsb_o-wVideo can’t be loaded: Route at Cape Horn (https://youtu.be/TBaSAsb_o-w) ...
by Rich Wilson | Jan 14, 2017 | Ship's Logs
Every 6 hours I get a new GRIB file for the weather forecasts. Every 6 hours it seems that the essence stays the same, but the wind strengths at Cape Horn increase. I plot out various scenarios, trying to keep moving, but with an idea to stay near the north of the...
by Rich Wilson | Jan 13, 2017 | Ship's Logs
What an eventful 24 hours. We were in the bulls-eye of the strong winds for the depression. Solent to staysail to storm jib, and 1 reef to 2 reefs to 3 reefs in the mainsail. A big sea built, and it was, as usual, cold and gray. We had 35 knots of wind, and although...
by Rich Wilson | Jan 12, 2017 | Ship's Logs
Wednesday, January 11th: The depression that is forecast approaches. As we are 4th in the group, we will likely get it the worst, since it will slide to the East Northeast, and with the confinement of the Antarctic Exclusion Zone, which goes East Southeast, there is...
by Rich Wilson | Jan 10, 2017 | Ship's Logs
The defining characteristic of these past few days has been gray, gray, gray, overcast and gray. It seems as though we have not seen the sun substantively, except of one afternoon last week, for weeks. Amazing, and one hopes that that will change. We have 1500...
