Category: 2013 Cape Town to Trinidad Positions

YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2013/04/13 18:32 LATITUDE: 32-50.50S LONGITUDE: 017-39.44E COURSE: 323T SPEED: 8.5 MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 12 WIND_DIR: SSE CLOUDS: 0% VISIBILITY: 10 BARO: 1015 TREND: 0 AIR_TEMP: 15.0C COMMENT: Beach House -EN ROUTE- Cape Town, SA to Luderitz, Namibia……ABEAM Cape Columbine We got in a two and half hour sail this afternoon but despite the 14 knots of wind, it\’s from dead astern so we\’d go to slow. Nice current push giving us over 9 knots regularly. Should beat the low if it doesn\’t speed up due to hit Cape Town in two days (Nambia in three). Tried to listen for the Peri Peri net tonight, but heard nothing. Absolutely cloudless, calm night with a 2 meter swell. Nikki asleep, Scott on watch. KIT, Scott and Sleeping Nik

YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2013/04/13 09:18 LATITUDE: 33-47.50S LONGITUDE: 018-24.02E COURSE: 330T SPEED: 7.9 MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 9 WIND_DIR: SSE CLOUDS: 0% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1016 TREND: 0 AIR_TEMP: 21.1C COMMENT: Beach House -EN ROUTE- Cape Town, SA to Luderitz, Namibia – ABEAM Robben Island…… It was really hard to get off the dock to start this cruising \”mini season\”. First, Cape Town is really nice and the view of Table Mountain nothing short of spectacular Second, the usual boat projects and their coordination were a bit of a challenge. Robben Island is the island where Nelson Mandela was held as a political prisoner during Apartheid. It\’s the Alcatraz Island of South Africa and now like Alcatraz, a tourist attraction; no longer a prison. I\’ll catch up the blog in the next day or so and \”tell all\”…..:-) KIT, We\’re back on Sailmail for the time being and maybe for quite awhile. Scott and Sailor Nik