by Rich Wilson | Jan 22, 2017 | Ship's Logs
A very bad night last night. Our weather GRIB files, 2 different models, predicted big areas of 20 knots or 25 knots of wind from the north. Instead we had 35 knots of north, steady, up to 38, which created a big wave situation, with cresting seas 12-15′ high....
by Rich Wilson | Jan 21, 2017 | Ship's Logs
Back into the fog last night, solent and full main, and finally solent and one reef as the breeze increased. We have a radar but it seems to not be very effective, we have a radar detector, which is effective, but it only alerts when another vessel has their radar on,...
by Rich Wilson | Jan 20, 2017 | Ship's Logs
Last evening, I came on deck to see the sun and Venus setting. The sky was clear and blue and Venus was amazingly sharp and bright. I had had a Skype talk last week with Murray Lister, Expert, and he said that when aboard New Zealand Pacific, heading east across the...
by Rich Wilson | Jan 19, 2017 | Ship's Logs
It was a long approach to Cape Horn, and then a long passage around Diego Ramirez Island and the continental shelf, and then a long gybe Northeast up the leeward edge of the shelf and then to arrive at the entrance to Straits Lemaire. Once through there, and suddenly...
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) ...
