Zephyr left Falmouth at 9:00 (GMT?) this morning, and there will be at least 4 days until Bent or others of his crew can blog us eager followers. I'll then keep up with some weather/wind facts together with more guesses for where they might be.
Slow-motion filming of ZEPHYR through the water
In general I can see that the selection of time for this little bit longer travel is very good, when talking about weather. Far out west is a stable high pressure is parked for quite a while according to the forecasts. The best thing is that the wind strength is suggested to be of fair optimal sailing strength for the whole periode they will need for going to La Coruna. They should even have a wind direction for a nice Beam Reach (slør).
If I now this sunday evening makes a Great circle distance of about 60 miles which is the distance they should have covered with 5 knots in 10 hours, they should now be in the area of the yellow spot:
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| Aproximate position of Zephyr after 10 hours sailing from Falmouth |
Hi Arne
ReplyDeleteThanks for your calculation of ZEPHYRS position. Please keep on doing it. When they arrive in coruna we cann check out how accurate the dead rekogning was! The wind seemes to be perfect.
Charles
Sure Charles
ReplyDeleteI'll come back with a new estimate maybe tomorrow?
A new check on the latest GRIB-data, shows still nice winds, both in directions and strength. :-)