Mostly Harmless
07 March 2008 | Richmond, BC
24 November 2007 | Aukland Harbour, New Zealand
14 November 2007 | 275 NM north of Kiwi Land
11 November 2007 | 450 NM from Whangarei
08 November 2007 | 600 NM from Whangarei
06 November 2007 | A couple miles outside North Minerva Reef
05 November 2007 | North Minerva Reef - day 2
05 November 2007 | North Minerva Reef
04 November 2007 | about 40 nm north of Minerva
03 November 2007 | somewhere in between Tongatapu and Minevera Reefs
31 October 2007 | Tonga - Nuku'Alofa - still
31 October 2007 | Tonga - Nuku'Alofa
14 October 2007 | Nukualofa - Tongatapu - Kingdom of Tonga
28 September 2007 | Vava'u, Tonga
13 September 2007 | Niue
31 August 2007 | Rarotonga, Cook Islands
27 August 2007 | 150 miles SE of Bora Bora
28 July 2007 | Leeward Island
23 July 2007 | Moorea, FP
15 July 2007 | Papeete, Tahiti
High Noon
02 June 2007 | 431NM to Hawaii
Morgan MacKay
Q: Where are you?
A: The sun is directly overhead.er.now!
No seriously, the sun is directly overhead.
At exact 2155 GMT, the sun past directly overhead of us, verified by sextant.
Tyler and I were sitting in the cockpit yesterday evening discussing that the sun is traveling north and we're going south. At some point the sun would have to pass over us on its way north. We pulled out the nautical almanac and looked at our current latitude. Incredibly, at some time in the next 24 hours the sun would be at higher latitude then the boat.
With some rough interpolating of the tables, we plotted the position of the sun on the computer at couple different hours. We came to the conclusion with a minor course correction in the middle of the night; we could run the exact latitude of the sun over the day. We calculated that if we where able to run that latitude for the morning, at some time between 2150 and 2200 GMT, the sun would be directly above.
The sun rose this morning directly behind the boat. At 2150 we went out on deck with the sextant. Holy hell is it hot on the deck. At 2155 the sun, was at 90 degrees of declination to the horizon, aft, forward, port and starboard.
After our little celestial event, we have now turned to course 260T and are headed directly to Maui under spinnaker.
A: The sun is directly overhead.er.now!
No seriously, the sun is directly overhead.
At exact 2155 GMT, the sun past directly overhead of us, verified by sextant.
Tyler and I were sitting in the cockpit yesterday evening discussing that the sun is traveling north and we're going south. At some point the sun would have to pass over us on its way north. We pulled out the nautical almanac and looked at our current latitude. Incredibly, at some time in the next 24 hours the sun would be at higher latitude then the boat.
With some rough interpolating of the tables, we plotted the position of the sun on the computer at couple different hours. We came to the conclusion with a minor course correction in the middle of the night; we could run the exact latitude of the sun over the day. We calculated that if we where able to run that latitude for the morning, at some time between 2150 and 2200 GMT, the sun would be directly above.
The sun rose this morning directly behind the boat. At 2150 we went out on deck with the sextant. Holy hell is it hot on the deck. At 2155 the sun, was at 90 degrees of declination to the horizon, aft, forward, port and starboard.
After our little celestial event, we have now turned to course 260T and are headed directly to Maui under spinnaker.
Comments
| Vessel Name: | Mostly Harmless |
| Vessel Make/Model: | C&C 40 |
| Hailing Port: | Steveston, BC, Canada |
| Crew: | Morgan MacKay |
| About: | Mostly Single Handed. Currently crew in the South Pacific: Vanessa. Crewed to Hawaii: Tyler Borges. |
| Extra: | Bought in 2005 on Seattle WA, Wendigo became Mostly Harmless registered in Vancouver BC. Over the last year, she has undergone a transformation from a soft middle aged performance cruiser to capable offshore passage maker. |
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Mostly Harmless
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Who: Morgan MacKay
Port: Steveston, BC, Canada