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Topic: Phosphorescence
By Alex on February 2, 2005, at 0353 UTC
Topic(s): Phosphorescence, Things that worked Sitrep: 0353hrs 02 Feb 2005 UTC 49’52”S 173’54”W Map Ref 43 1828nm 12.0C 1.5ktsE
Stunning night, low moon to start, with Venus – I think – alongside and the usual giga of stars. Then clouds and light mist. Damp, slightly misty completely cloudless and quite breathtaking silvery rather than gold … Continue reading
By Alex on April 26, 2005, at 2245 UTC
Topic(s): Phosphorescence, Stars 2245hrs 26 Apr 2005 UTC Map Ref 185
Everything that can ever be said about the night sky has been said somewhere. I have just spent a mesmerising hour on deck, about two hours after sunset, no moon to start with, but the whole of the Great BearGreat Bear / … Continue reading
By Alex on May 8, 2005, at 1030 UTC
Topic(s): Phosphorescence, Supplies & Storage 1030hrs 08 May 2005 UTC Map Ref 207
We are almost exactly half way between Africa and South America, about 1200 miles NE of the mouth of the Amazon. Too far for any noticeable change in the colour of the water. Going just west of North which is as … Continue reading
By Alex on May 9, 2005, at 0445 UTC
Topic(s): Astronomy, Phosphorescence Sitrep: 0445hrs 09 May 2005 UTC Map Ref 208
The ExaminerShe who asks awkward questions of the crew and tests them with difficult tasks. has jumped back into the bus shelterExplanation here. We’re down to the #5 and 3 reefs in 30+ knots and a rising sea, still nursing … Continue reading
By Alex on May 11, 2005, at 1400 UTC
Topic(s): Phosphorescence 1400hrs 11 May 2005 UTC Map Ref 212
Once again, not lot to report. The wind is now 30 – 35 knots, very lumpy sea, hugely uncomfortable in every respect. #4 and 3 reefs with the traveller eased way down to feather the main most of the time. Not … Continue reading
By Alex on August 28, 2005, at 2330 UTC
Topic(s): Phosphorescence 2330hrs 28 Aug 2005 UTC 35’57”N 015’48”W Ref 319
This evening we rolled 3 Celebrations into one: the almost 200th anniversary of Trafalgar, 1000 miles in the can and we’ve passed the northern version of WollongongThe town which moves. There is a Berri-joke about having a beer off WollongongThe town which moves. There is a Berri-joke about having a beer off Wollongong on the return trip from Hobart - and how Wollongong seems to move further south each year. on … Continue reading
By Alex on October 12, 2005, at 0430 UTC
Topic(s): Phosphorescence Follow my wallowTrying to keep the boat moving with nowt on the wind indicator. Loosely derived from Flanders and Swann song “Mud, Glorious Mud” containing the words “Follow me follow, Down to the Hollow, Where we can Wallow in Mud, Glorious Mud". – for the sailors. We’ve all sat in the oily swell in the Channel or the SolentStrait separating the Isle of Wight from the mainland of England. or off Sydney Heads or wherever with no wind, the kiteSailors’ slang for a spinnaker or the headsail and the main slatting and banging and tearing out their cringles and thought we were particularly unlucky. So we were, but it’s all relative. Next time it happens to you, and a ship passes, imagine that the waves are as big as the ship and about 100 to 150 metres apart, with the swell you are sitting in applied across the top. … Continue reading
By Alex on December 9, 2005, at 1840 UTC
Topic(s): Phosphorescence 1840hrs 09 Dec 2005 UTC 43’48”S 140’17”E Ref 635
There were seven wonders of the world and then there was phosophorescence. I haven’t seen it since the Atlantic but now we are roaring along in a lovely ethereal cloud of milky luminescence that starts at the bows and grows … Continue reading
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