L'Eau Commotion Westabout

An (other) attempt to sail non stop Westabout around the world

Vessel Name: L'Eau Commotion
Vessel Make/Model: Northshore 38
Hailing Port: Brisbane Australia
Crew: Bill Hatfield
25 February 2020 | Scarborough Marina, Brisbane
21 February 2020
21 February 2020 | 59 Miles To Go
20 February 2020 | 114 Miles East Of Australia
19 February 2020 | 220 Miles East Of Gold Coast Seaway
19 February 2020 | 262 Miles To Gold Coast Seaway
18 February 2020 | 304 Miles East Of Gold Coast Seaway
18 February 2020 | 328 Miles To Go
17 February 2020 | 423 Miles To Go
17 February 2020 | 423 Miles To Go
16 February 2020 | 505 Miles East Of The Gold Coast
15 February 2020 | 617 Miles To Go
14 February 2020 | 755 Miles To Go
13 February 2020 | 888 Miles To The Gold Coast
12 February 2020 | 1032 Miles To The Gold Coast
11 February 2020 | 580 Miles North Of The Waikato
11 February 2020 | 1167 Miles To Home
10 February 2020 | 1300 Miles To Home
10 February 2020 | 1309 Miles To The Gold Coast
09 February 2020 | 1460 Miles To The Gold Coast Seaway
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25 February 2020 | Scarborough Marina, Brisbane

Thank You

D Day Plus 4 7am Wednesday 26th February 2020

21 February 2020

A Definite Maybe ETA

Day 259 6am Saturday 22nd February 2020 (UTC +10 )

21 February 2020 | 59 Miles To Go

All Good

Day 258 6pm Friday 21st February 2020 ( UTC +10 )

20 February 2020 | 114 Miles East Of Australia

ETA Looking Likely

Day 258 6am Friday 21st February 2020

19 February 2020 | 220 Miles East Of Gold Coast Seaway

Amended ETA

Day 257 6am Thursday 20th February 2020

19 February 2020 | 262 Miles To Gold Coast Seaway

Amended ETA

Day 256 10:30pm Wednesday 19th February 2020 ( UTC+10 )

Benguela Current

11 October 2017 | 150 Miles Northwest of Cape Town South Africa
7:00pm Wednesday 10th October 2017 ( UTC+2 ) I took this photo just as the sun was rising when 50 miles Northwest of Cape Town. If you use your imagination you can see the fabled Table Mountain just to the right. It was a quiet night with a little traffic, noticeable for a 60 metre tug towing a 190 metre cargo ship to Cape Town, making 4 knots. The winds were light but as the morning advanced they got up and with full sail we found ourselves making over eight knots, no doubt helped by the Benguela Current which always flows north along the South African and Namibian coast and has a charted strength of a half to two knots. The PredictWind is only giving it about 3/4 knot as this is one of the less favoured months and I have settled to run between the 1000m contour to the right and the 2000 m contour to the left. I think I might have nailed it with a run of 100 miles sunup to sundown. With the dead flat sea starting to develop a swell and with full sail on a quartering breeze of about 16 knots the vessel was starting to s lew and round up so though I have been saving the autopilot for emergencies I thought what the heck let's use it. Put on the gentlest setting it seemed to handle the conditions well once it settled down into its rhythm. The pilot and its electric steering ram has a good reputation so my thinking is why not use it when power is available through the wind generator and solar panels, and have the Windpilot as the emergency. The course and speed are better in these conditions and seeing I did so much dithering around in the Indian Ocean I thought it high time to get motivated. --------------000305050507010601070401--
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