Imagine trying to find eighty resonant extracts about whales in texts ranging from Shakespeare to ship’s logs without the help of the internet. This is a writer who’ll always go the extra nautical mile: no mere storyteller, but a person who Knows Stuff and has Read Things and Really Coul...
2016), and usually to the Admiralty Chart Datum (ACD) which is based on some definition of local low water relative to ODN as used for Nautical Charts. Whilst the PSMSL holds some examples of 19th and early 20th Century RLR data from sites such as Liverpool and Sheerness, recovered ...
Once each boat had its respective advisor(s) on board, we untied from the mooring buoys and headed off, with great haste, to the first lock more than 25 nautical miles away. Independently but in casual line up, each boat made its way to the Pacific side of Lake Gatun. As we approach...
over a long distance,Kanduseemed to average about 5.25 knots/hour, or 125 nautical miles a day: our performance when we sailed down the Baja coast from San Diego, and so that’s the basis I used to calculate how long it would take us to arrive in the Galapagos. With...
We pass under the Verrazano Bridge and that brings us into the Upper Bay just south of Manhattan Island – Jersey City, NJ to the west and Brooklyn, NY to the east. It’s amazing and we are so lucky to be doing this in our own boat…. but we are definitely disappointed that we ...
Baja chart with surf spot notations From here, we are headed south toward Turtle Bay, but will stop-off for the boys to surf off Isla Natividad, weather permitting. One weather report forecasts a southern swell for Thursday, so we’ll see. Then we’re off to “Mag Bay” and Puerto Val...