Flying Pig Float Plan We're going from Sandy Hook, NJ, to Miami, preferably in one jump. Barring last minute warnings against it, we're leaving Wednesday Oct. 1, PM.
Based on the recommendations from Chris Parker, our weather consultant, for favorable winds and seas, we'll go on a rhumb line, the outward curve through Barnegat Bay excepted, from Sandy Hook NJ to Cape Hatteras, the first large jump being about 330 miles. We'll avoid, as much as possible any adverse current as seen on these two sites: https://oceanography.navy.mil/legacy/web/cgi-bin/graphic.pl/metoc/223/145/0-0-17/24 and /32, plus http://rads.tudelft.nl/gulfstream/, as our course will take us close to the Gulf Stream edge. Once past Hatteras, we'll take another 300+mile jump to the GA coast area, again to avoid the Gulf Stream. From there we'll take another rhumb line run of about 300 miles to about West Palm Beach, avoiding the Gulf Stream as seen in the above plus /16, the southern portion, which shows that a straight line would have us crossing the Gulf Stream's adverse current. Once in the West Palm Beach, or so, area, we'll have to stay close to shore, as the Gulf Stream is very close in that area. Sailmail (over SSB radio) contact will be available through my son David [EMAIL PROTECTED], in the event of emergency. You'll be able to track our progress on our SPOT shared page, http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?&glId=0sKGa9AJRCF45FaX5L5g6PLcZGvSb3nMe if you're interested. We'll also send "OK" messages via Spot on a daily basis to our primary family, as before. We intend daily reports via sailmail, as well as having our SPOT (http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?&glId=0sKGa9AJRCF45FaX5L5g6PLcZGvSb3nMe) on continuously during our passage. At this time weather, wind and currents all look very good for our passage, but in the event that changes, or there are equipment difficulties which suggest otherwise, we'll not hesitate to come in from wherever we are at the time. See our log listings for the daily reports... L8R Skip and Lydia (and Portia, of course!) Morgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig KI4MPC See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery ! Follow us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog and/or http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog "You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it however." (and) "There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts." (Richard Bach, in The Reluctant Messiah) _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
