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Great
American II - 2003 |
Sea
Witch - 1849 |
| Day
# |
| Date |
latitude
longitude |
course@
boatspeed |
daily
nm |
baro-
meter |
air °F
sea °F |
wind
dir@
windspeed |
sea
height |
|
| Date |
latitude
longitude |
course |
daily
nm |
| Capt.
Waterman's Logbook at Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, USA |
|
| 64
Top
|
May 18
cloudy |
16°15'N
054°32'W |
293°T@
19.9 kts |
257
nm |
1014
mb |
air 83°
sea 78°F |
E@
15 knots |
seas
4'-7' |
| Occasional
flickers of wind to ESE and lighter, will mean end of trades, trying to stay to the south
to make westing in stronger breeze. Reacher and full mainsail set. Good day's run with
lighter breeze. Pushed reacher to its limit last night. – Rich Wilson |
|
| Mar 13 |
15°52'N
049°32'W |
NW |
192
nm |
| Wind falling off, hauling to East. Very light airs from East.
– Capt. Waterman |
|
| 65
Top
|
May 19
cloudy |
18°37'N
056°42'W |
346°T@
6.3 kts |
197
nm |
1015
mb |
air 83°
sea 78°F |
E@
15 knots |
seas
4'-7' |
| Occasional
flickers of wind to ESE and lighter, will mean end of trades, trying to stay to the south
to make westing in stronger breeze. Reacher and full mainsail set. Good day's run with
lighter breeze. Pushed reacher to its limit last night. – Rich Wilson |
|
| Mar 14 |
17°47'N
051°58'W |
NW |
181
nm |
| Light breezes from NE. Until 10 PM when the wind hauled to NNE
and freshened on, took in stun sails. – Capt. Waterman |
|
| 66
Top
|
May 20
sc. cloud |
20°53'N
057°47'W |
299°T@
8.9 kts |
167
nm |
1014
mb |
air 82°
sea 78°F |
SxW@
10 knots |
seas
3'-5' |
| Sailed
north to try to escape light winds. Wind shifted slowly east to southeast to south, gybed
to port at 10 p.m., breeze increased slightly through the night, sailed fast with reacher
to sunrise. As wind reached 12 knots, boat reached 15 knots, set jib, then took reef in
main as approached big black cloud ahead. – Rich Wilson |
|
| Mar 15 |
20°18'N
055°15'W |
NW |
240
nm |
| Wind falling off, hauling to East. Very light airs from East.
– Capt. Waterman |
|
| 67
Top
|
May 21
clouds |
23°53'N
060°44'W |
018°T@
9.4 kts |
238
nm |
1008
mb |
air 80°
sea 79°F |
WSW@
22 knots |
seas
6'-9' |
| Sailed
fast through late afternoon into evening. Approached cold front, aiming at southernmost
portion of front according to weathermaps. Wind shifting to West from Southwest. –
Rich Wilson |
|
| Mar 16 |
22°48'N
058°15'W |
NW |
225
nm |
| Have had a pleassant breeze all through from NE. Saw a sail
steering west. Lost the trades today. – Capt. Waterman |
|
| 68
Top
|
May 22
clouds |
25°30'N
063°11'W |
316°T@
11.2 kts |
na
nm |
1015
mb |
air 76°
sea 77°F |
NNW@
15 knots |
seas
6'-9' |
| Trying
to reach NE winds through afternoon and evening on N side of cold front. Very slow wind
direction change, sailed much westing. Midnight, blade of windcharger blew off, shut it
down. LIfting into morning brings us to course. #1 or #2 reef plus staysail in night.
– Rich Wilson |
|
| Mar 17 |
23°58'N
059°58'W |
NW |
119
nm |
| Very light breezes from NE by N all through the first and
middle parts. Stud sail in and out several times. Ends with light airs from SE. –
Capt. Waterman |
|
| 69
Top
|
May 23
clear |
27°52'N
066°26'W |
308°T@
9.0 kts |
237
nm |
1021
mb |
air 75°
sea 74°F |
ENE@
10 knots |
seas
3'-5' |
| Fast
sailing through afternoon and into evening. Breeze begins to lighten and shift toward
East. Staysail to jib, then #1 reef to full main on midnight watch. Jib to Reacher on
morning watch. Barograph rising as approach Bermuda High, trying to keep to west to stay
out of its calms. – Rich Wilson |
|
| Mar 18 |
25°20'N
060°35'W |
NW |
90
nm |
| Blasted light winds from NE to SE. – Capt. Waterman |
|
| 70
Top
|
May 24
clear |
30°36'N
069°02'W |
322°T@
10 .0 kts |
221
nm |
1019
mb |
air 77°
sea 74°F |
SSE@
17 knots |
seas
3'-5' |
| Through
afternoon and evening trying hard to sail fast, and to sail low on course to stay to west
of Bermuda High. Breeze slowly shifting to south, making that difficult, on midnight watch
breeze nearly shifted to directly downwind course, gybed at 2a.m. for cold eddy waypoint,
hit timing perfectly as set port gybe course, and then slowly got headed further to bring
us toward course. – Rich Wilson |
|
| Mar 19 |
27°05'N
061°30'W |
NW |
116
nm |
| First part calm. Midnight had steerage way air from SSE. Spoke
Schooner Wilmington from Baltimore for Deneesase. Ends with a fresh breeze from SW. –
Capt. Waterman |
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