We’ve had a look at the gribWeather files.
Graphics in Binary file: GRIB files associate a specific weather datum (eg wind velocity or atmospheric pressure) with a geographic position. Because the resulting file is a collection of these points they are extremely small and so ideal over slow links such as sailmail. for the next three days for the area to the NW of us and it seems that we can keep going north. The wind should come around to the south, 25 – 30 by tomoz evening and stay for a couple of days. As long as we can sail downwind in the change without busting anything, we’ll go with it and then try to stay in the bottom of the string of lows to get some easting and duck around one when we get a chance and go for the barn doorMetaphor for whatever we were aiming at. Derived from the saying “Couldn’t hit a barn door at five paces” used to describe anyone who can’t shoot straight.. So that’s the plan.
Caroline – great minds! And don’t they boggle. Must ask Matt one day.
Kimbra – guesstimate for potential bolt holes still useful – but not so urgent, I hope.
Kris – Your driveway with Berri in it might be an interesting photo caption competition!
SailmailSailmail is the system that Berrimilla uses for email communication. It is a non-profit association of yacht owners operating a network of private coast stations in the maritime Mobile Radio Service. propagationIn the logs, this refers to the radiation of signal energy and is customarily qualified by the words abysmal, ratshit or lousy extinction was finger glitch on my part – must have entered the wrong longitude in the dark and not noticed. Interestingly, there are little fail safe indicators if you know the system – I found my error while setting up the gribWeather files.
Graphics in Binary file: GRIB files associate a specific weather datum (eg wind velocity or atmospheric pressure) with a geographic position. Because the resulting file is a collection of these points they are extremely small and so ideal over slow links such as sailmail. request because the little boat wasn’t on screen. Apologies to all of you that have never seen sailmailSailmail is the system that Berrimilla uses for email communication. It is a non-profit association of yacht owners operating a network of private coast stations in the maritime Mobile Radio Service., but it might help people that do use it.
There’s a temp lull and I have to go up the mast – see yez.