1900z: The tracker now shows the sailboat about 10 miles east of the Falklands....they are on their way.
Kinda' neat to track the vessel on GPS:
Track 3Y0JAlso watching the real time winds they can expect:
Bouvet on WindyI'm not a mariner but I wonder with so much gear, fuel and Hams, I suspect it'll ride the waves much lower than normal. I remember the "powered" Atlantic Tuna was cooking along at maybe 7 knots I think it was. I'm curious to see if the put the sails up, lean and "cut the prevailing winds" like you see on TV.
I actually held a ruler up to my screen to try and figure the scaled distance of how far they've made it since departing, lol.
5 knots - 5.75 MPH
7 knots = 8.05 MPH
9 knots = 10.36 MPH
Port Stanley to Bouvet = 2,500 Miles.
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