Anticipation
Well, unless you have been here before there is nothing like the Anticipation prior to departing on a long ocean passage for the first time in a new boat.
All the preparation, is it enough, too much, what are we forgetting, mail forwarding, friends family etc… It can all add up to allot of anxiety. Add to this Raewyn is doing all the last minute stuff while I am at work.
I can get the 7 day forecast to get the picture of whats to come, but 7 days is about the limit to forecasting, especially around NZ in the winter when the Lows and Highs are marching through one after the other. Not for the faint hearted. Non the less we must keep moving toward our goal of a June 6 departure and hope we have a good weather window to sail with. http://www.metvuw.com/forecast/forecast1.php?type=rain®ion=nz&tim=12 this is today’s picture, looks good for a sprint north, unfortunately we are still 2 weeks away, by then there will have been a few gales come and go.
We have great respect for the Tasman crossing as this is the 6th such crossing for us, and we have usually seen some weather each crossing, we do not expect anything different this time, but I can only dream of the constant 15-18 kt. quarterly reach all the way to Cairns. We will keep you posted, here is a weather chart for 7 days showing a “squash zone” coming from Sydney heading across the Tasman, we don’t want to see this on our departure day, as it will pack a punch http://www.metvuw.com/forecast/forecast1.php?type=rain®ion=swp&tim=168
This is my office, landing on the Rockwater in Calabar Nigeria.
