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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 |
|
| 29
Top
|
Apr 13
cloudy |
26°33'S
051°21'E |
241°T@
9.2 kts |
204
nm |
1016
mb |
air 73°
sea 77°F |
SE@
31 knots |
seas
12'-18' |
| Switched to staysail no main late afternoon, allowed us to sail higher
and slower so we could sail around some of the bigger waves. Much handsteering. Through
night: 30-35 knots of wind, big seas. Huge sheets of water and solid water coming into
cockpit. Trying to handsteer as much as possible to avoid biggest crunches. GAII
amazing. – Rich Wilson |
|
| Feb 05 |
28°23'S
47°55'E |
SW |
143 |
| Light
airs from South. In the evening the wind hauled to East, sets all stud sails both sides.
Ends with light airs from East, clear, warm, smooth. – Capt. Waterman |
|
| 30
Top
|
Apr 14
sunny |
27°43'S
047°35'E |
253°T@
9.7 kts |
215
nm |
1014
mb |
air 73°
sea 77°F |
SExS@
28 knots |
seas
12'-18' |
| Sailed
through the night with staysail; exceedingly tumultuous seas; washing machine effect with
waves emerging from all directions and disappearing for no apparent reason. Extremely
difficult for boat. Morning, wind to 20 knots, hoisted #3 reefed mainsail plus staysail.
Speed picked up, then wind increased and we had to roll up part of the staysail. –
Rich Wilson |
|
| Feb 07 |
29°08'S
45°00'E |
SW |
160 |
| All
through these 24 hours light breezes from East clear pleasant weather. Ends the same.
– Capt. Waterman |
|
| 31
Top
|
Apr 15
sunny |
28°22'S
043°53'E |
250°T@
8.4 kts |
NA
nm |
1012
mb |
air 75°
sea 76°F |
SxE@
18 knots |
seas
10'-16' |
| Wind
and crashing continued through afternoon and night. Tremendous seas washing over whole
boat. Swells to 25' with crests. Thunderous crashes of waves into side of boat knocked out
GPS, either antenna or transceiver or both. Went to backup handheld [more]. – Rich Wilson |
|
| Feb 08 |
29°44'S
42°19'E |
SW |
146 |
| Light
Easterly wind all through. Most disgusting the last five days work. –
Capt. Waterman |
|
| 32
Top
|
Apr 16
sunny |
28°46'S
039°32'E |
270°T@
5.4 kts |
NA
nm |
1012
mb |
air 75°
sea 76°F |
S@
7- 8 knots |
seas
8'-10' |
| Front
passed through in night. Thunderstorms, squalls in the morning. Steady wind 10 knots in
mid-day allowed some progress. This afternoon, wind dropped to 5-8 knots with huge lumpy
sea, making little progress. – Rich Wilson |
|
| Feb 09 |
30°49'S
40°18'E |
SW |
122 |
| Nearly
calm all through the night. At daylight made a sail ahead. Wind very light from East,
cloudy. At 6 a.m. the wind came out of SE. Took in all studsails, braces by the wind. At 9
spoke British Bark Macedon from Poncherrey bound to London, 42 days out. The wind hauled
to ESE strong. – Capt. Waterman |
|
| 33
Top
|
Apr 17
sunny |
30°07'S
036°14'E |
250°T@
7.5 kts |
221
nm |
1020
mb |
air 78°
sea 76°F |
SxE@
18 knots |
seas
8'-16' |
| Yesterday
late afternoon breeze came back, started to make fast time, up to 12 knots over ground.
Wind velocity increased into the night and we went all the way through sail inventory to
staysail plus third reef in mainsail. Still have that combination up. Rapid rise in
barograph as we approach new high [more].
– Rich Wilson |
|
| Feb 10 |
32°41'S
34°49'E |
SW |
300
nm |
| Begins
with strong breezes from SE which hauled to ESE. So all night hauled to East; in the
morning set all light sails. Ends with strong breeze from East. – Capt.
Waterman |
|
| 34
Top
|
Apr 18
sunny |
32°07'S
032°14'E |
219°T@
10.6 kts |
246
nm |
1019
mb |
air 84°
sea 77°F |
ExN@
14 knots |
seas
5'-8' |
| Wind
slowly shifting to east, making good time down coast. Went aloft this a.m. to clear VHF
antenna that in the violent seas of a few days ago had wrapped itself back around our wind
indicator; very rough trip aloft. Spoke to a bulk carrier Singapore for Brazil, couldn't
get name, going parallel, took a long time to steam away from GAII. – Rich Wilson |
|
| Feb 11 |
34°18'S
29°33'E |
SW |
281
nm |
| Strong
breezes from E to ENE all through the day, grumbling sea, all sail set. Toward noon
threatening appearances in the west, took in light sails. – Capt.
Waterman |
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