Date: 9 April 2024 Sailing from: Luderitz, Namibia Bound towards: St. Helena Noon position: 17°36.5’S 000°00.4′ E Course: NWxW Speed: 5.4 knots Wind force and direction: Force 4 SSE Seas/swell: 3m SE Barometer: 1019 Steady Sky: 6/8 Cu, Cn Water temperature: 75°F Distance made good in 24 hours: 131nm Passage log: 1,059nm Voyage log: 22,932nm […]
Date: 8 April 2024 Sailing from: Luderitz, Namibia Bound towards: St. Helena Noon position: 17°40.3’S 002°16.0′ E Course: NWxW Speed: 5.9 knots Wind force and direction: Force 5 SSE Seas/swell: 4m SE Barometer: 1020 Steady Sky: 3/8 Cu Water temperature: 74.5°F Distance made good in 24 hours: 143nm Passage log: 928nm Voyage log: 22,801nm Distance
Date: 7 April 2024 Sailing from: Luderitz, Namibia Bound towards: St. Helena Noon position: 19°20.8’S 003°50.1′ E Course: NxW Speed: 6.1 knots Wind force and direction: Force 6 ESE Seas/swell: 5m SE Barometer: 1021 Steady Sky: 8/8 St Water temperature: 74.7°F Distance made good in 24 hours: 147nm Passage log: 785nm Voyage log: 22,685nm Distance
Date: 4 April 2024 Sailing from: Luderitz, Namibia Bound towards: St. Helena Noon position: 23°39.1’S 008°55.7′ E Course: NW 1/2 N Speed: 5.3 knots Wind force and direction: Force 4 SxW Seas/swell: 3m S Barometer: 1019 Rising Sky: 6/8 Cu, Ac Water temperature: 69.5°F Distance made good in 24 hours: 123nm Passage log: 374nm Voyage
Picton Castle will arrive in Cape Town, South Africa in late February. If you would like to send a letter or parcel to a crew member aboard, you must send it by DHL and not by mail. Here is the address: Crew member’s name Picton Castle c/o Supermaritime South Africa 2nd Floor, FPT Building South
Date: 30 November 2023 Sailing from: Luganville, Vanuatu Bound towards: Bali, Indoneisa Noon position: 10°29.9’S 142°15.6’E Course: WxS1/4S Speed: 7.3 knots Wind force and direction: Force 1 SSE Seas/swell: <1m SE Water temperature: 82.5°F Distance made good in 24 hours: 174nm Passage log: 1,635nm Voyage log: 13,544nm Distance to next port: 1,579nm Sails set: Outer
Maggie here, in Picton Castle’s shore office in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada. Looking out my window, I see that it’s overcast, windy and it looks like it might rain later today. We changed our clocks to Standard Time this past weekend so it’s now dark at the end of my work day. It’s times like
Date: 28 October 2023 Sailing from: Suva, Fiji Bound towards: Port Vila, Vanuatu Noon position: 18°17’S 174°33.5’E Course: W Speed: 4.4 knots Wind force and direction: Force 3 NxE Seas/swell: 1m ESE Barometer: 1017 Steady Sky: 2/8 cu, Sunny and warm Water temperature: 77.2°F Distance made good in 24 hours: 105nm Passage log: 233nm Voyage
Date: 30 October 2023 Sailing from: Suva, Fiji Bound towards: Port Vila, Vanuatu Noon position: 18°20.4’S 171°00’E Course: West Speed: 5.5 knots Wind force and direction: Force 3 SWxS Seas/swell: 2m SxW Barometer: 1018 Steady Sky: 6/8 cu, ac Water temperature: 78°F Distance made good in 24 hours: 133nm Passage log: 573nm Voyage log: 11536nm
Date: 29 October 2023 Sailing from: Suva, Fiji Bound towards: Port Vila, Vanuatu Noon position: 18°37.3’S 173°14.7’E Course: W1/2S Speed: 3.3 knots Wind force and direction: Force 3 NNW Seas/swell: 2m NE Barometer: 1016 Steady Sky: 3/8 ,ac Water temperature: 77.5°F Distance made good in 24 hours: 79nm Passage log: 440nm Voyage log: 11403nm Distance
