Some fine weather
Puerto Eden After a couple of days waiting for weather in Caleta Colibri we got going again on the 16th and entered Canal Concepcion where we made good progress but were thwarted in reaching our intended goal for the day …
Month: March 2015
Beating Progress
When I wrote the last entry we were sitting in Caleta Villarica waiting for better weather to get North in Canal Pitt. On the 10th we thought that the forecast was promising so got under way but after a few …
Equinoctial Gales
Satellite image from 05:09UTC 05 March 2015 The weather that I spoke about in the last entry materialised almost as forecast but in our sheltered spot didn’t affect us much. We could feel some swell, see the clouds rushing past …
Guessing at the weather
Viewfax displaying a GRIB file. Note the several 50+ knots arrows.
We are still sitting out a prolonged period of windy conditions that look set to last for some days to come. I thought that I would write a little about the sources of information that we use to ‘guess’ what …