Date: 8 December 2023 Sailing from: Luganville, Vanuatu Bound towards: Bali, Indonesia Noon position: 10°45.1’S 120°13.6’E Course: NWxW Speed: 6.5 knots Wind force and direction: Force 3 WNW Seas/swell: 2m WxS Barometer: 1014 Steady Sky: 5/8 cu, ci Water temperature: 86.4°F Distance made good in 24 hours: 150nm Passage log: 2,948nm Voyage log: 19,857nm Distance […]
Date: 6 December 2023 Sailing from: Luganville, Vanuatu Bound towards: Bali, Indonesia Noon position: 11°17.7’S 125°52.2’E Course: W Speed: 6.6 knots Wind force and direction: Force 1 WxS Seas/swell: <1m SWS Barometer: 1013 Steady Sky: 3/8 cu, ci Water temperature: 87.4°F Distance made good in 24 hours: 160nm Passage log: 2,605nm Voyage log: 14,514 Distance
Date: 5 December 2023 Sailing from: Luganville, Vanuatu Bound towards: Bali, Indonesia Noon position: Course: 11°7.1’S 128°40.9’E Speed: 6.6 knots Wind force and direction: Force 2 Westerly Seas/swell: <1m WxS Barometer: 1014 Steady Sky: 2/8 ac, cu, sunny Water temperature: 85.3°F Distance made good in 24 hours: 160nm Passage log: 2,445nm Voyage log: 14,354nm Distance
Date: 4 December 2023 Sailing from: Luganville, Vanuatu Bound towards: Bali, Indonesia Noon position: 10°55.2’S 131°22.6’E Course: W1/4N Speed: 6.3 knots Wind force and direction: Force 1 NxW Seas/swell: <1m SExE Barometer: 1014 Steady Sky: 2/8 cu, ci Water temperature: 86°F Distance made good in 24 hours: 151nm Passage log: 2,285nm Voyage log: 14,194nm Distance
Date: 3 December 2023 Sailing from: Luganville, Vanuatu Bound towards: Bali, Indonesia Noon position: 10°40.4’S 133°54.3’E Course: W 3/4N Speed: 6.8 knots Wind force and direction: Force 2 WNW Seas/swell: 1m Southwesterly Barometer: 1014 Steady Sky: 6/8 cu, ci, as, sc Water temperature: 85°F Distance made good in 24 hours: 165nm Passage log: 2,134nm Voyage
Date: 2 December 2023 Sailing from: Luganville, Vanuatu Bound towards: Bali, Indonesia Noon position: 10°36.8’S 136°42.2’E Course: WxN Speed: 6.8 knots Wind force and direction: Force 1 Northerly Seas/swell: calm Barometer: 1013 Steady Sky: 3/8 cu, ac, ci Water temperature: 84°F Distance made good in 24 hours: 164nm Passage log: 1,969 Voyage log: 13,878nm Distance
Date: 1 December 2023 Sailing from: Luganville, Vanuatu Bound towards: Bali, Indonesia Noon position: 10°37.7’S 139°27.4’E Course: WxN1/4N Speed: 7 knots Wind force and direction: Force 1 NW Barometer: 1013 Sky: 4/8 ac, cu, ci Water temperature: 83°F Distance made good in 24 hours: 170nm Passage log: 1,805nm Voyage log: 13,714nm Distance to next port:
Picton Castle is through the Torres Strait. Tuesday November 28 – Picton Castle was sailing along blissfully 6 miles north of Eastern Fields, a coral reef or sunken atoll, 100 miles SE of Bramble Cay, and Pandora’s Passage* and on to Bligh’s Entrance to the Torres Strait, the narrow shallow stretch of water separating Papua
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
Days just run one into another on a tradewind passage under square sail such as the one we are enjoying now. Apart from wearing ship we barely touch a line for days. Routines become routine. Sun rises and sets, stars come out, moon grows fuller, winds pull us along over gentle seas at a rate
