Category: Position Reports

YOTREPS: YES
TIME: 2013/07/17 17:35
LATITUDE: 05-17.11N
LONGITUDE: 052-35.33W
MARINE: NO
WIND_SPEED: 5
WIND_DIR: SE
CLOUDS: 10%
VISIBILITY: 20
BARO: 1016.1
TREND: -1
AIR_TEMP: 34.4C
COMMENT: Beach House -ANCHORED – Ille Royal at Ille de Salut. – French Guyana

We are essentially anchored at the infamous site of \”Devil\’s Island\” prison. It\’s only 100 yds the other side of Ille Royal.
Several boats (mostly day tour) are anchored here. Currently it\’s 94 deg F here (34.4 deg C) and you can see why here in the hot, sweltery ITCZ – this would be a Devil of an Island…..

We\’ll investigate the tour in the morning. I\’ll update the blog this evening.
KIT,
Scott and Navigator Nik…

YOTREPS: YES
TIME: 2013/07/17 10:42
LATITUDE: 04-58.27N
LONGITUDE: 052-10.77W
MARINE: NO
WIND_SPEED: 5
WIND_DIR: E
CLOUDS: 25%
VISIBILITY: 10
BARO: 1016.4
AIR_TEMP: 25.0C
COMMENT: Beach House -EN ROUTE- Ille Salut (DEVIL\’S ISLAND), French Guyana – Day sail north

After two days in Cayenne, we\’re ready to keep moving north. As the Illes Salut are 10 miles seaward of Korou, we will try and anchor there tonight and see about a tour of the famous closed prison tomorrow. The Space Center tour at Korou is booked for two weeks and this is LOW tourist season…WOW!
We\’re on a wait list for Friday and we\’ll give it a go. I\’ll update the blog later today and we should be anchored well before dark. Nikki has a book which describes the basic rules of Cricket….I\’m going \”batty\”….:-)
KIT,
Scott and Nikki in the wickets!

YOTREPS: YES
TIME: 2013/07/14 06:18
LATITUDE: 04-51.07N
LONGITUDE: 052-16.97W
MARINE: NO
WIND_SPEED: 1
WIND_DIR: SE
CLOUDS: 85%
VISIBILITY: 5
BARO: 1015.1
AIR_TEMP: 23.9C
COMMENT: Beach House -ANCHORED – Cayenne, French Guyana. 4 days 18 hours

It was another day of mostly motor. We sailed for a few hours and then the wind went on our bow. Then just quit an hour later.
It was over 8 miles from the outer buoys to the anchorage up the river. There are several boats here. Not sure if cruisers or locals.
Safe and sound, we\’ll update the blog after a good nights sleep.
Scott and River Runner Nik…

YOTREPS: YES
TIME: 2013/07/13 10:28
LATITUDE: 04-04.70N
LONGITUDE: 050-08.53W
COURSE: 298T
SPEED: 7.4
MARINE: YES
WIND_SPEED: 9
WIND_DIR: SE
WAVE_HT: 0.0M
WAVE_PER: 0
SWELL_DIR: SE
SWELL_HT: 1.0M
SWELL_PER: 8
CLOUDS: 85%
VISIBILITY: 10
BARO: 1015.5
AIR_TEMP: 26.7C
SEA_TEMP: 27.8C
COMMENT: Beach House -EN ROUTE -Forteleza – Cayenne, French Guyana-Day 5-190 nm

A bit of a surprise that we covered this distance, but we did have a strong current. We sailed 2 1/2 hours yesterday, but the winds were just not
from the right direction or quite strong enough. 130 miles to Cayenne, Blog up shortly.
KIT!
Scott and Nikki

YOTREPS: YES
TIME: 2013/07/12 10:19
LATITUDE: 02-44.54N
LONGITUDE: 047-17.31W
COURSE: 297T
SPEED: 8.0
MARINE: YES
WIND_SPEED: 5
WIND_DIR: SE
WAVE_HT: 0.0M
WAVE_PER: 0
SWELL_DIR: ESE
SWELL_HT: 1.0M
SWELL_PER: 8
CLOUDS: 40%
VISIBILITY: 15
BARO: 1015
TREND: 1
AIR_TEMP: 35.0C
SEA_TEMP: 27.2C
COMMENT: Beach House -EN ROUTE – Forteleza – Cayenne, French Guyana – Day 4 – 174 motoring miles

The winds have teased us a bit from astern, but alas not enough yet. Lots of distant lightening last night, a bit more squalls in the neighborhood but very little
rain. We\’ve 300 miles to Cayenne and expect to be there on Sunday morning. The Amazon\’s \”fan\” of outflow is now pushing with the current and as such at very low RPM we\’re doing 8+ knots most of the time. Blog will be up shortly…
KIT,
Scott and Nikki

YOTREPS: YES
TIME: 2013/07/12 10:19
LATITUDE: 02-44.54N
LONGITUDE: 047-17.31W
COURSE: 297T
SPEED: 8.0
MARINE: YES
WIND_SPEED: 5
WIND_DIR: SE
WAVE_HT: 0.0M
WAVE_PER: 0
SWELL_DIR: ESE
SWELL_HT: 1.0M
SWELL_PER: 8
CLOUDS: 40%
VISIBILITY: 15
BARO: 1015
TREND: 1
AIR_TEMP: 35.0C
SEA_TEMP: 27.2C
COMMENT: Beach House -EN ROUTE – Forteleza – Cayenne, French Guyana – Day 4 – 174 motoring miles

The winds have teased us a bit from astern, but alas not enough yet. Lots of distant lightening last night, a bit more squalls in the neighborhood but very little
rain. We\’ve 300 miles to Cayenne and expect to be there on Sunday morning. The Amazon\’s \”fan\” of outflow is now pushing with the current and as such at very low RPM we\’re doing 8+ knots most of the time. Blog will be up shortly…
KIT,
Scott and Nikki

YOTREPS: YES
TIME: 2013/07/11 10:10
LATITUDE: 01-30.06N
LONGITUDE: 044-46.54W
COURSE: 296T
SPEED: 5.7
MARINE: YES
WIND_SPEED: 3
WIND_DIR: SE
WAVE_HT: 0.0M
WAVE_PER: 0
SWELL_DIR: ENE
SWELL_HT: 1.0M
SWELL_PER: 8
CLOUDS: 10%
VISIBILITY: 15
BARO: 1014.5
AIR_TEMP: 33.3C
SEA_TEMP: 27.2C
COMMENT: Beach House -EN ROUTE- Forteleza – Cayenne, French Guyana-Day 3- 162nm

We\’ve been motoring now for 27 hours. The wind news is that it may come up enough this afternoon to try and sail?
That may last for the duration of this leg…or not!

Very calm and I believe we have lost our current which is being checked by the Amazon! It\’s flowing between our hulls!…
(With apologies to Paula Cole). Hopefully as we get north of the rivers outlet, it will add to the push north? We shall see.

Blog up soon,
KIT,
Motoring along, Scott and Off watch Nik

YOTREPS: YES
TIME: 2013/07/09 10:22
LATITUDE: 01-27.41S
LONGITUDE: 040-21.91W
COURSE: 301T
SPEED: 7.8
MARINE: YES
WIND_SPEED: 10
WIND_DIR: E
WAVE_HT: 0.0M
WAVE_PER: 0
SWELL_DIR: SE
SWELL_HT: 1.0M
SWELL_PER: 8
CLOUDS: 50%
VISIBILITY: 12
BARO: 1017.1
AIR_TEMP: 30.0C
SEA_TEMP: 26.7C
COMMENT: Beach House -EN ROUTE – Forteleza, Brazil – Cayenne, French Guyana – First 21.5 hours = 178 nm!

Our first day was quite nice. I\’ll update it all in the blog which will be up shortly. The big deal of why this
coastal route seems to be better than the ocean route is that we have an amazing current pushing us up the coast.

I think we\’ll go to Cayenne, French Guyana. (As someone just wrote me, \”It sounds Hot\”…:-)
Belem, Brazil has a \”mixed bag\” reputation including some nasty stuff, hence I think we\’ll pass.
KIT,
Scott and sleeping Nikki in the air conditioned cabin!

YOTREPS: YES
TIME: 2013/07/08 13:19
LATITUDE: 03-35.96S
LONGITUDE: 038-34.16W
COURSE: 343T
SPEED: 7.7
MARINE: NO
WIND_SPEED: 15
WIND_DIR: ESE
CLOUDS: 50%
VISIBILITY: 15
BARO: 1018.7
AIR_TEMP: 29.4C
COMMENT: Beach House -EN ROUTE – Forteleza to Cayenne, French Guyana???

We\’re winging this destination a bit as the coast is not particularly inviting.
If we do go all the way to French Guyana, it\’s about 1000 miles northwest of us.

Forteleza was \”interesting\”, I\’ll finish it up in the next blog.

Remember, DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS. USE OUR SAILMAIL ADDRESS ON THE BOAT.
KIT,
Scott and Nikki

YOTREPS: YES
TIME: 2013/07/03 14:22
LATITUDE: 03-43.16S
LONGITUDE: 038-31.75W
MARINE: NO
WIND_SPEED: 7
WIND_DIR: ESE
CLOUDS: 70%
VISIBILITY: 12
BARO: 1017.1
AIR_TEMP: 28.9C
COMMENT: Beach House – MED MOORED – Forteleza Marina – 2 days, 355 miles

We anchored out and came into the marina with the dinghy. There are about 7 boats here all Med Moored (not my favorite!).
The Marina staff helped us get hooked up and tied to the dock. Next the \”passerelle\” (gangway) and then we\’ll be ashore.
This is the first time I\’ve done it on my bow anchor instead of chain system that the Marina\’s usually provide.

All is well, we\’ll get checked in and rested. I\’ll update the blog later tonight or tomorrow….
KIT,
We\’re in South America!
Scott and Nikki