by Rich Wilson | Feb 13, 2017 | Ship's Logs
We are well off the coast of Morocco. Today, we made a nice little video for one of our sitesALIVE! classes that is in Agadir, Morocco. They are only half a kilometer from the beach and said they were going to go look out to sea when we were at about the same...
by Rich Wilson | Feb 12, 2017 | Ship's Logs
We encountered an interesting condition today, the harmattan, which is when the fine powder sand of the Sahara Desert is blown out to sea. We are about 1250 miles west of the desert. When I went to lower the genoa cable (a mast supporting cable in place of the genoa...
by Rich Wilson | Feb 12, 2017 | Q&A - RichWilson, Q&A-RW-wk15
Dear Kim’s class: the Doldrums are a more general term. The more specific term used in meteorology is the ITCZ, the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone. Its where the northern and southern hemisphere weather systems meet. We can get our weather maps from NOAA...
by Rich Wilson | Feb 12, 2017 | Q&A - RichWilson, Q&A-RW-wk15
Dear Nicolas: Yes, we do know all the parts of the boat. We obviously need some specific expertise on different parts of the boat because its too complicated to know all the specifics for each part. So, we have an electronics expert, a sail expert, and a mechanical...
by Rich Wilson | Feb 11, 2017 | Ship's Logs
We are finally out of the worst of the pounding of the trade winds, we still have 15-25 knots of wind, but the direction has shifted from Northeast to East approximately, and the seas have followed, so as we head North, we are not going so much into the waves. There...
