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 )

A Eureka Moment ( Continued )

13 August 2018 | 370 Miles South of Niue ( GCS 1951 )
11:00am Monday 13th August 2018 ( UTC-11 )
It has long been my contention that there is no such thing as an attractive force which we call gravity but rather the blocking of an all pervading force by objects large and small such that there is a resultant much smaller force pushing them together. Now this seems on the face of it to deny the longstanding and well proven results of the Newtonian F MmG/r squared and should be taken as a given as is well demonstrated by Kepplers Laws of Planetary Motion which work pretty well in our solar system but completely fall down when studying the motion of galaxies, which of course were unknown to these brilliant philosophers. ( I might remind the reader that the current school of thought is that everything in the Universe is attracted to everything else in the Universe whilst at the same time everything in the Universe is flying apart from everything else in the Universe - a complete contradiction if ever there was one. )
And the Eureka moment?
If we take this blocking to be by the area of the body presented to this force then the difference in force is proportional to the square of the distance to this body and thus satisfies observed planetary motion.
Nothing in the real world is as cut and dried as this as some of this force can either curve around or go through the edges of the body but the principle is there and I am sure that by a process of iteration by any existing powerful computer a pretty fair approximation can be made of the relevant factors.
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