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Topic: Stars
By Alex on January 28, 2005, at 0900 UTC
Topic(s): Birds, Stars, Yacht Sarau We’re moving again, heading south to find the westerlies. Just spoke to SarauYacht with which Berri had a rendezvous at sea – it’s (skipper) Malcolm’s birthday today, so we felt it necessary to consult with Dr CooperCoopersCoopers Sparkling Ale: - according to Alex: “brewed in the bottle, so a bit of sludge comes with it - best beer on the planet - beats a Pan Galactic Gargleblaster hands down”. Also a home brew from a Cooper’s Kit, perfected by onboard master-brewer Pete. See Pete’s interesting equation Sparkling Ale: - according to Alex: “brewed in the bottle, so a bit of sludge comes with it - best beer on the planet - beats a Pan Galactic Gargleblaster hands down”. Also a home brew from a Cooper’s Kit, perfected by onboard master-brewer Pete. See Pete’s interesting equation CoopersCoopers Sparkling Ale: - according to Alex: “brewed in the bottle, so a bit of sludge comes with it - best beer on the planet - beats a Pan Galactic Gargleblaster hands down”. Also a home brew from a Cooper’s Kit, perfected by onboard master-brewer Pete. See Pete’s interesting equation Sparkling Ale: - according to Alex: “brewed in the bottle, so a bit of sludge comes with it - best beer on the planet - beats a Pan Galactic Gargleblaster hands down”. Also a home brew from a CooperCoopersCoopers Sparkling Ale: - according to Alex: “brewed in the bottle, so a bit of sludge comes with it - best beer on the planet - beats a Pan Galactic Gargleblaster hands down”. Also a home brew from a Cooper’s Kit, perfected by onboard master-brewer Pete. See Pete’s interesting equation Sparkling Ale: - according to Alex: “brewed in the bottle, so a bit of sludge comes with it - best beer on the planet - beats a Pan Galactic Gargleblaster hands down”. Also a home brew from a Cooper’s Kit, perfected by onboard master-brewer Pete. See Pete’s interesting equation ’s Kit, perfected by onboard master-brewer Pete. See Pete’s interesting equation on his behalf and there’s a chance we can rendezvous, at about 4740 17155. Probably dark when we get there and we will be there first, so we will turn left and run the latitude and let them catch up. They will be about 30 miles behind and going 2 kt faster so about a 15 hour chase. Makes for an interesting few hours. … Continue reading
By Alex on February 26, 2005, at 1455 UTC
Topic(s): Stars Sitrep: 1455hrs 26 Feb 2005 UTC 52’54”S 109’05”W Map Ref 83
Still moving – still according to plan – VMGVelocity made good – loosely, speed in the right direction. in the 6s & 7s. Oh joy! Long background warehouse-sized swell that keeps us rolling gently as we swish away the … Continue reading
By Alex on April 11, 2005, at 1530 UTC
Topic(s): Stars 1530hrs 11 Apr 2005 UTC Map Ref 162
This looks like being long and gossipy. I saw a flying fish today – we must be getting close to the tropics – its about 28 -30 degrees, humid, hazy – tough going. Not really enough wind and heading us badly, so … Continue reading
By Alex on April 23, 2005, at 0700 UTC
Topic(s): Fridge, Stars 0700hrs 23 Apr 2005 UTC Map Ref 179 I’ve just crashed 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. and lost the message I’d been working on for most of yesterday and tonight. So here goes all over: Odd sort of birthday – from the sailing angle, no fun at all – becalmed most of the day in searing heat, boat a sweatbox, no escape. Redeemed by satphone calls from my family and the last 2 bottles of Dr CooperCoopersCoopers Sparkling Ale: - according to Alex: “brewed in the bottle, so a bit of sludge comes with it - best beer on the planet - beats a Pan Galactic Gargleblaster hands down”. Also a home brew from a Cooper’s Kit, perfected by onboard master-brewer Pete. See Pete’s interesting equation Sparkling Ale: - according to Alex: “brewed in the bottle, so a bit of sludge comes with it - best beer on the planet - beats a Pan Galactic Gargleblaster hands down”. Also a home brew from a Cooper’s Kit, perfected by onboard master-brewer Pete. See Pete’s interesting equation CoopersCoopers Sparkling Ale: - according to Alex: “brewed in the bottle, so a bit of sludge comes with it - best beer on the planet - beats a Pan Galactic Gargleblaster hands down”. Also a home brew from a Cooper’s Kit, perfected by onboard master-brewer Pete. See Pete’s interesting equation Sparkling Ale: - according to Alex: “brewed in the bottle, so a bit of sludge comes with it - best beer on the planet - beats a Pan Galactic Gargleblaster hands down”. Also a home brew from a CooperCoopersCoopers Sparkling Ale: - according to Alex: “brewed in the bottle, so a bit of sludge comes with it - best beer on the planet - beats a Pan Galactic Gargleblaster hands down”. Also a home brew from a Cooper’s Kit, perfected by onboard master-brewer Pete. See Pete’s interesting equation Sparkling Ale: - according to Alex: “brewed in the bottle, so a bit of sludge comes with it - best beer on the planet - beats a Pan Galactic Gargleblaster hands down”. Also a home brew from a Cooper’s Kit, perfected by onboard master-brewer Pete. See Pete’s interesting equation ’s Kit, perfected by onboard master-brewer Pete. See Pete’s interesting equation ’s special which we’d been cooling in our outside fridge … 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 April 28, 2005, at 2330 UTC
Topic(s): Jellyfish, Stars 2330hrs 28 Apr 2005 UTC Map Ref 189
I will try to describe how it feels to be sailing through the night out here. No Moon, yet not dark. I’m standing in the cockpit, leaning on the dodgerAn awning that covers a small part of the forward part of … Continue reading
By Alex on May 1, 2005, at 1020 UTC
Topic(s): Birds, Planes, Stars, Ventilation 1020hrs 01 May 2005 UTC Map Ref 194
Honoured GustsShort increases in wind speed – or people who signed the Gust BookThe Guest Book on the Berri site, so named to prevent spammers finding it to offer, or request unusual services and medications. The Gust book is here.., Readers and Occasional Browsers, Greetings. Those among you who have had difficulty with jokes about Golgafrinchan Telephone Sanitisers and MarvinThe manically depressed robot with a “brain the size … Continue reading
By Alex on May 5, 2005, at 0600 UTC
Topic(s): Meteorites, Rig, Stars 0600hrs 05 May 2005 UTC Map Ref 201
Is there no end to this guy spouting on about the night sky? do I hear all y’all moaning into your cornies/ Well, here’s a bit more – on these clear moonless nights the Bowl of Night is so intensely beautiful … Continue reading
By Alex on May 7, 2005, at 2115 UTC
Topic(s): Astronomy, Clouds, Stars, Things that worked, Vegie garden Somewhere in Australian literature there’s a book or story called “Call me when the Cross turns overNovel by D’Arcy Niland written 1957”. This would be obscure today to most Australians, I expect, because to appreciate just how the Cross does turn over, you need a horizon and a clear view of most of the sky. It’s very obvious from here … Continue reading
By Alex on May 13, 2005, at 0935 UTC
Topic(s): Ghosts, Stars 0935hrs 13 May 2005 UTC 17’29”N 035’24”W Map Ref 215 4929nm (2442nm to Falmouth)
A bit over an hour ago, (now much more at send time…) we crossed 1640N. Why is this worth mentioning? – just another number except that it is exactly 1000 miles north of the equator. … Continue reading
By Malcom on May 13, 2005, at 2100 UTC
Topic(s): Astronomy, Stars The Milky way is just 100,000 light year wide (diameter). Our sun is 26,000 light years from the center. The bulge of the disk at the center protudes 12,000 light years either side. The Milky way contains at least 250 billion stars, perhaps over 1 trillion.
By contrast the … Continue reading
By Alex on May 15, 2005, at 1030 UTC
Topic(s): Conspiracy Theory, Stars 1030hrs 15 May 2005 UTC Map Ref 219 PropagationIn the logs, this refers to the radiation of signal energy and is customarily qualified by the words abysmal, ratshit or lousy dreadful this morning (15/1030Z) – you may not get this till tomorrow Z – started yesterday evening local. Last night: The Great big Bear is up in the top spreaders and – all going well – should be up over the masthead in a couple of nights. So the flea has humped its bluey all the way round the curve of the pachydermatous rump and is approaching the nice sunny bit half way up the topside. … Continue reading
By Alex and Peter on September 21, 2005, at 1015 UTC
Topic(s): Belmore school, Meals, Navigation, Pirates, Sharks, Stars DB 125, 9,907 (GPS 135). Truckin’ along reasonably well, touch wood, hold me breff till me eyes pop and waltzing matilda. I think we have hooked into the Brazil current too, which is nice. A bit short of 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. connection time because of all the BelmoreSydney School corresponding with Berri SouthSydney School corresponding with Berri answers, so this will be short. … Continue reading
By Alex on September 22, 2005, at 0915 UTC
Topic(s): Stars 0915hrs 22 Sep 2005 UTC 04’33”S 026’38”W Ref 381
DB: 121, 9786 (GPS 125) My propagationIn the logs, this refers to the radiation of signal energy and is customarily qualified by the words abysmal, ratshit or lousy window now ends at about 0900, resuming again if we’re lucky, at around … Continue reading
By Alex on September 29, 2005, at 0445 UTC
Topic(s): Henry Knight, Stars 0445hrs 29 Sep 2005 UTC 19’01”S 026’52”W Ref 392
Mal – I think half way down the Atlantic was just north of the equator. By my calculations, we have sailed about 4400 miles from Falmouth and we have 2700 to go to a point south of Cape Town. And 9000 … Continue reading
By Alex on October 4, 2005, at 2315 UTC
Topic(s): Meals, Stars 02315rs 04 Oct 2005 UTC 28’27”S 022’19”W Ref 415 Where do I start? How do I keep this going for another 65 days? First – today had that element of magic that blasts away the awfulness of the last couple of weeks with radiance and warmth – bright, dampish sunshine, the old barge a clothes horse for every mouldy sock and festering shirt, for wet weather gear and the boot feralsInteresting biological colonies that grow and fester in seaboots. There are left foot ferals and right foot ferals and occasionally they get to cross breed and create fierce hybrids.Interesting biological colonies that grow and fester in seaboots. There are left foot feralsInteresting biological colonies that grow and fester in seaboots. There are left foot ferals and right foot ferals and occasionally they get to cross breed and create fierce hybrids. and right foot feralsInteresting biological colonies that grow and fester in seaboots. There are left foot ferals and right foot ferals and occasionally they get to cross breed and create fierce hybrids. and occasionally they get to cross breed and create fierce hybrids., for, indeed, those delicate parts of the anatomy that tend themselves to fester when unable to hang out – as it were. … Continue reading
By Alex on November 5, 2005, at 2150 UTC
Topic(s): Stars, Sunrise, Sunset 2150hrs 05 Nov 2005 UTC 40’13”S 040’34”E Ref 524
About 5 hours ago, I was out shaking the reefs – furious rolling, decks covered in running water, but I was sustained by the vision of the Moon and Venus close together in a clear patch of sky surrounded by a … Continue reading
By Berrimilla on September 11, 2008, at 1515 UTC
Topic(s): Stars Hey Suze – this one’s for you!
I’ve been watching the stars in between clouds over the last few nights and thought of you with the star chart out on calm nights in the Clipper race. Your favourite big lazy W has been hanging up there. I couldn’t remember it’s … Continue reading
By Berrimilla on October 15, 2009, at 1305 UTC
Topic(s): Stars 0200/15th 2810 01821
Cloudless, moonless night sky, light haze, so the universe and all its marvel and mystery shining through lightly frosted glass. Wonderful! Two light trails on the water – Jupiter, setting to the west, and Sirius, just risen to the east. Mintaka, our zenith star for the equator … Continue reading
By Berrimilla on November 1, 2009, at 1755 UTC
Topic(s): Stars 0700/01 position 0109 02304 trip 107/24 we’ve had about a knot-- Speed: definition of speed at sea. One knot is one nautical mile per hour. The nautical mile is about 1.15 % longer than the "statute" mile used on land. A knot is about half a metre per second.
-- A knot is also the result of winding a rope around itself or another rope to make a join or a loop .
– Speed: definition of speed at sea. One knot-- Speed: definition of speed at sea. One knot is one nautical mile per hour. The nautical mile is about 1.15 % longer than the "statute" mile used on land. A knot is about half a metre per second.
-- A knot is also the result of winding a rope around itself or another rope to make a join or a loop .
is one nautical mileAbout 15 % larger than the "statute" mile used on land
per hour. The nautical mileAbout 15 % larger than the "statute" mile used on land
is about 1.15 % longer than the “statute” mile used on land. A knot-- Speed: definition of speed at sea. One knot is one nautical mile per hour. The nautical mile is about 1.15 % longer than the "statute" mile used on land. A knot is about half a metre per second.
-- A knot is also the result of winding a rope around itself or another rope to make a join or a loop .
is about half a metre per second. — … Continue reading
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