Love these, Don. I watched about half when you first posted it and finally came back to finish up. You would have made a great sailing instructor. Nothing boring about your delivery of information. Thank you for resurrecting the 1968GGR.
I'm a similar age to Don and grew up reading about ocean voyaging. In that era people really understood the weather as Don described here. They were therefore able to analyse the conditions very accurately, without the aid of outside forecasts. Simon, Kirsten and maybe others seem to get this .
Thanks Don, Kristen in her last weekly phone call before the incident also expressed what she was proposing to do and that was head south to I think about 4 degrees north of the limit, so her NE course after she was contacted took her a long way off her intended route. Thanks for the Q&A. All god as ever.
You can also pick up currents at sea by measuring the sea temperature regularly as typically with the Agulas current the temperature is warmer than the surrounding ocean.
Great race, Don. I laughed, as you speak Australian English and I speak American English. So when you said the Elliot had big problems with his "basket", I had no idea what a "basket" was on a sail boat. Now I have come to understand that it was his bow sprint. ;-)
I love the tradition of rescue without monetary thought. Something that must never change. Out there, all that greed and profit nonsense should stay on the land. We're all sailors when on the Sea and there is a moral code to that life.
Im willing to disagree..for time after time enormous costs are incurred to bring back the poorly prepared . Life isn't meant to be babied and coddled . There's all l ready to many of us upon this tender planet. Those who select a threatening lifestyle need to fully take up the accompanied threats. Any sailor with assets ought to be held liable for reimbursing rescue costs. Sometime GGR ought to point out when they have refused to allow particular entrants to proceed & for what reasons.
Love these, Don. I watched about half when you first posted it and finally came back to finish up. You would have made a great sailing instructor. Nothing boring about your delivery of information. Thank you for resurrecting the 1968GGR.
Thanks Don, you explain things very well as some non-sailors like myself sometimes get a tad lost of the technical issues.
The reason for a bowsprit was one of my questions. You are a good teacher, Don. Thank you.
Thank you Don.
I'm a similar age to Don and grew up reading about ocean voyaging. In that era people really understood the weather as Don described here. They were therefore able to analyse the conditions very accurately, without the aid of outside forecasts. Simon, Kirsten and maybe others seem to get this .
Thanks Don, Kristen in her last weekly phone call before the incident also expressed what she was proposing to do and that was head south to I think about 4 degrees north of the limit, so her NE course after she was contacted took her a long way off her intended route. Thanks for the Q&A. All god as ever.
TSS stands for Traffic Separation Scheme.
You can also pick up currents at sea by measuring the sea temperature regularly as typically with the Agulas current the temperature is warmer than the surrounding ocean.
Weather model are in fact populated also by infrared temperature measurament from satellites
Nice update Don!
Great race, Don. I laughed, as you speak Australian English and I speak American English. So when you said the Elliot had big problems with his "basket", I had no idea what a "basket" was on a sail boat. Now I have come to understand that it was his bow sprint. ;-)
I love the tradition of rescue without monetary thought. Something that must never change. Out there, all that greed and profit nonsense should stay on the land. We're all sailors when on the Sea and there is a moral code to that life.
I tip my hat!
Im willing to disagree..for time after time enormous costs are incurred to bring back the poorly prepared . Life isn't meant to be babied and coddled . There's all l ready to many of us upon this tender planet. Those who select a threatening lifestyle need to fully take up the accompanied threats. Any sailor with assets ought to be held liable for reimbursing rescue costs. Sometime GGR ought to point out when they have refused to allow particular entrants to proceed & for what reasons.
@@canyonhaverfield2201 it also happens to the well prepared
How does one get the docu from the 2018 GGR