Special Report

It is official! S/V Music has re-entered the northern hemisphere! Steve Jacobsen, John Knepper, and I have crossed the equator on board Music at longitude 146 deg 46.53'W Hawaii/Tahiti Time:19:58 July 13, 2012. Immediate destination Oahu. Final destination - Bellingham, Washington. Music's new home and port of call!

Date: 07/13      

Noon to noon run:  164NM
Time of position: 18:00
Lat/Lon: 00 12.55'S deg 146 deg 48.36'W
Course: 355 - 000 deg Mag
Current Speed:6.5 - 7.0 Kt
Time of position: 18:00
Next Waypoint North of Equator: 03 deg 14.08'N; 146 deg 54.48'W
            206 NM distance

Synopsis: Just a few miles to go to reach the equator. - Yeah!! - Again! This time we will be back in the Northern Hemisphere. But even so, we will still have over 1400NM to go to get to Oahu. We are close reaching again and trying to hold our longitude until we get about 3 degrees North. The reason is that with the weather systems moving through the low latitudes north of us (10-20 deg N) the wind directions become very north as they arrive and we'd like to be able to maintain as nearly a beam reach as possible.