Ship's Log 07/13/09 8:00PM
I had a nice relaxing day that started with light SE winds that pushed me pretty good along the "imaginary" gulf stream line which was hard to find. I am beginning to doubt those charts from passageweather.com After all why would they post them free online if similar reports could cost up to 200$ per trip. Anyhow wind died by early PM so I motored for 6 or so hours. At sunset, E wind picked up to 10 kts and I was on a beam reach doing 6kts. Seems that I also found a bit of that imaginary current.
This evening I was able to hear NOAA weather radio for Long Island, Montauk, and south of New England. Home sweet home, here I come. Its been 3 years since I heard those.
Weather report, once again changed twice today. based on this mornings report it was important for me to reach 38N by midnight or so. Now it turned out its meaningless, as these easterlies will persist through the night or at least I hope so.
I had a fun day on a day when seas where flat like a lake. I first raided my onboard liquor cabinet as everything was staring to get moldy. Then I cleaned the kitchen counters drawers and the cabinets. Tomorrow will be the other cabinet, and the spice rack.
The sun is now setting and I am getting the jitters. What will tonight bring. Cape May, NJ station is reporting strong thunderstorms along the Delaware bay drifting east. I am about 100NM east of that. I'll be damned if those catch up with me. On the other hand the NOAA report for Hudson canyon to Baltimore canyon did not mention any thunderstorms, not even scattered?!?! Could that be possible? Looking at the horizon I cannot see the ones coming from Delaware bay, but I can see something SE of me. That should not be moving towards me, at least I hope not. Right around dark is when the lightning starts showing up.
So after tonight, I am about 230NM away from Newport RI, and I can almost say that I should be in by Wednesday night or overnight into Thursday. Just as I am writing this, NOAAs forecast for Wednesday for South of New England changed to winds 10kts out of the North until afternoon and then SW 15-20. If that the case I will have to sail east until the SW takes over. Today is Monday it will probably change 2-3 times by Wednesday.
Another nice thing that happened today I was able to get a really high baud rate on the HF radio for emails. Canadian station out of Montreal was free most of the day, and propagation was excellent I was getting 3200bytes /minute!!! I was even able to send the picture of my Mahi Mahi.
This evening I was able to hear NOAA weather radio for Long Island, Montauk, and south of New England. Home sweet home, here I come. Its been 3 years since I heard those.
Weather report, once again changed twice today. based on this mornings report it was important for me to reach 38N by midnight or so. Now it turned out its meaningless, as these easterlies will persist through the night or at least I hope so.
I had a fun day on a day when seas where flat like a lake. I first raided my onboard liquor cabinet as everything was staring to get moldy. Then I cleaned the kitchen counters drawers and the cabinets. Tomorrow will be the other cabinet, and the spice rack.
The sun is now setting and I am getting the jitters. What will tonight bring. Cape May, NJ station is reporting strong thunderstorms along the Delaware bay drifting east. I am about 100NM east of that. I'll be damned if those catch up with me. On the other hand the NOAA report for Hudson canyon to Baltimore canyon did not mention any thunderstorms, not even scattered?!?! Could that be possible? Looking at the horizon I cannot see the ones coming from Delaware bay, but I can see something SE of me. That should not be moving towards me, at least I hope not. Right around dark is when the lightning starts showing up.
So after tonight, I am about 230NM away from Newport RI, and I can almost say that I should be in by Wednesday night or overnight into Thursday. Just as I am writing this, NOAAs forecast for Wednesday for South of New England changed to winds 10kts out of the North until afternoon and then SW 15-20. If that the case I will have to sail east until the SW takes over. Today is Monday it will probably change 2-3 times by Wednesday.
Another nice thing that happened today I was able to get a really high baud rate on the HF radio for emails. Canadian station out of Montreal was free most of the day, and propagation was excellent I was getting 3200bytes /minute!!! I was even able to send the picture of my Mahi Mahi.
posted by sundowner-cruise at 7:29 PM
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