Atlantic Delivery

[SaltyMonkey]

Oh come on. Too early to tell. geez.

[DotDun]

maybe he set the Spot adrift taped to a cooler lid.....just to mess with ya!

[atoll]

Originally Posted by DotDun

maybe he set the Spot adrift taped to a cooler lid.....just to mess with ya!

nah! then it would be doing about 25 miles a day with a much more erratic course instead of 50-70 miles a day.

2.5-3 knots is about what i would expect from a cat drifting downwind in 20-25 knot winds.

steering appears to be good as the course is not erratic.

direction wise, since the wind is on the aft quarter would indicate that they have some sailing ability,or motoring very slowly to be not pushed north.

[SaltyMonkey]

Their swapping out sails or had a tear √√√√

[monte]

conditions, COG and winds and waves also could be he has hove to for the last couple of days. Should abate today so he can head downwind again. Lets hope so...

[SaltyMonkey]

NEWS FLASH!

He's moving again!

Boatman << Thats HIM!
ESN :0-2441613
Type : TRACK
Latitude : 37.09138
Longitude :-32.73822
Time : March 12, 2014 1:43:30 PM PDT
Battery State :GOOD

[monte]

yep, NE at 3 knots. Strange. Can I edit my ETA guess??

[JPA Cate]

When I started passage making, there was little contact with the outside world during the passage. People just had to wait for us to make landfall to hear from us. This whole huge thread is amazing, in the sense that we can to some extent follow Boatie's progress. He'll probably fill us in about the delivery after he's finished it and after he sees this!

Smooth sailing, Boatie!

Ann

[SaltyMonkey]

Originally Posted by monte

yep, NE at 3 knots. Strange. Can I edit my ETA guess??

Ha nice try…but u r locked

[Flamingo1]

Originally Posted by monte

yep, NE at 3 knots. Strange. Can I edit my ETA guess??

How can you tell he is moving at 3kts? I've looked at the Spot tracking and I do not see that information. Are you calculating it using the long/lat and time of the position v. the long/lat and time of the prior position?

[knotnow]

Originally Posted by Flamingo1

How can you tell he is moving at 3kts? I've looked at the Spot tracking and I do not see that information. Are you calculating it using the long/lat and time of the position v. the long/lat and time of the prior position?

One would reckon – Like in Dead Reckon

[SaltyMonkey]

I calculated: 2 knts

[monte]

yes Flamingo, I put the coords in opencpn, measured the distance between and calculated the speed. Average last 12 hrs was about 3 knots, average last hour 3 knots as well...

[Flamingo1]

I thought there might have been something on Spot that did the work for you (because math is hard) - in any event, I calculated that between 1:43 and 2:12 he had traveled 2.724km - or 1.6926 miles over the course of 29 minutes. That resulted in a speed of 3.5mph or 3.0kts.

That matches what monte was stating.

[JPA Cate]

monte,

About that signature, how about The Full Monte?

Ann