BOUND FROM: Rodrigues Island, Mauritius, Indian Ocean TOWARDS: Reunion Island, France, Indian Ocean TIME ZONE: GMT +4 NOON POSITION: 20°36.7’S / 059°23.3’E DAYS RUN: 118nm PASSAGE DISTANCE RUN: 243nm DISTANCE REMAINING: 233nm COURSE AND SPEED: WxN 247T, 4.6 knots WIND: Wind Force 4, SSE WEATHER: fair, 4/8 cloud, visibility very good, barometer 1019 millibars and […]
BOUND FROM: Rodrigues Island, Mauritius, Indian Ocean TOWARDS: Reunion Island, France, Indian Ocean TIME ZONE: GMT +4 NOON POSITION: 20°01.5’S / 061°26.8’E DAYS RUN: 60nm PASSAGE DISTANCE RUN: 125nm DISTANCE REMAINING: 351nm COURSE AND SPEED: WNW 259T, 2.6 knots WIND: Wind Force 2, ENE WEATHER: fair,5/8 cloud, visibility excellent, barometer 1018 millibars and steady SWELL
BOUND FROM: Rodrigues Island, Mauritius, Indian Ocean TOWARDS: Reunion Island, France, Indian Ocean TIME ZONE: GMT +4 NOON POSITION: 20°01.1’S / 062°29.4’E DAYS RUN: 65nm PASSAGE DISTANCE RUN: 65nm DISTANCE REMAINING: 409nm COURSE AND SPEED: NW 276T, 2.9 knots WIND: Wind Force 1-2, NE WEATHER: fair, 1/8 cloud, visibility excellent, barometer 1016.5 millibars and steady
By Kate “Bob” Addison November 17th, 2014 22 days out of Bali and all is well aboard Picton Castle as we make a fine passage across the Indian Ocean. It’s a long way from Bali to Cape Town and there’s almost nothing in between except blue sky, blue swell and a little white barque impudently
By Kurt Schultz, trainee Bali is an island nation of contrasts. My experience didn’t start as well as hoped. After travelling almost 24 hours to reach Bali, I made the mistake of avoiding the airport taxi stand in order to get a better deal from one of the many drivers outside, all wearing identical green
By Kate “Bob” Addison Thursday October 30th, 2014 Four days out of Bali and all is well aboard Picton Castle as we sail westwards across the southern Indian Ocean. After motoring on and off for a few days to get clear of the currents that threatened to set us back towards Indonesia, the wind has
By Kate “Bob” Addison October 20th, 2014 We’ve visited some amazing places with the Picton Castle on this wonderful, slow voyage round the world, but nowhere quite like Bali! It’s the Far East, it’s Indonesia, it’s Bali! The colour and noise and bustle is really something especially after visiting some of the quietest and most
By Kate “Bob” Addison October 17th, 2014 It’s been almost two weeks since the last log from the Picton Castle at anchor here in Bali. Our feeble excuse is simply that we’ve been so busy working hard, though the real excuse is that Bali is full of shiny things and very distracting. We’ve been very
By Kate “Bob” Addison Monday October 6th, 2014 Monday morning finds Picton Castle at anchor in Benoa Harbour, Bali. After the four week passage from Vanuatu, we have finally reached land and find ourselves in another world. It’s a bit of a shock to the system to look around from the quarterdeck and see land
By Kate “Bob” Addison Monday September 8th, 2014 Picton Castle has been at sea for four days now, four days into the month-or-so passage from Vanuatu bound for Bali, Indonesia. We sailed off the dock from Luganville, Vanuatu’s second largest city on the island of Santo last Thursday after provisioning, fuelling up and clearing out.
