Frisky Cruising Adventures
Sailing our new Maverick catamaran from Cape Town South Africa to the US East Coast
14 July 2018 | Kennebunkport ME
09 July 2018 | Massachusetts
06 July 2018 | Boston
04 July 2018 | Boston
04 July 2018 | Boston
03 July 2018 | Boston
30 June 2018 | Massachusetts
22 June 2018 | Fall River Massachusetts
20 June 2018 | Narragansett Bay
08 June 2018 | Connectictu
31 May 2018 | New York City
29 May 2018 | New York City
22 May 2018 | New Jersey
12 May 2018 | Gulf Stream North
08 May 2018 | Florida
07 May 2018 | East Coast USA
06 May 2018 | Bahamas
30 April 2018 | Nassau Bahamas
25 April 2018 | Bahamas
23 April 2018 | Exuma Land and Sea Park
The Great Circle Route
23 November 2014 | Mid-Atlantic
Linda
Purrr-fect - Leg 2-day 4: Not a straight line
23 November 2014
Today Dave did intense research on "the great circle route", which basically says that when it comes to navigating long distances, the curvature of the earth makes the shortest distance a CURVED LINE. We discovered that our IPad Navionics chart app draws a simple straight line which isn't the shortest one!
So Dave worked several hours on our Imray chart and on his laptop MaxSea program to get the latitude and longitude coordinates for a great circle route. These have now been entered into our iPad Navionics and we will be attempting to track to them. I say "attempting" because the wind is dead behind us when we aim for these waypoints, and the wind isn't strong enough to move the boat. So we are gybing downwind, steering about 30 degrees to port or starboard to keep moving. More wind is predicted in the next few days, so we can only hope that is so.
Today's culinary highlight was pineapple upside cake made with some of the fresh pineapple cut up several days ago.
23 November 2014
Today Dave did intense research on "the great circle route", which basically says that when it comes to navigating long distances, the curvature of the earth makes the shortest distance a CURVED LINE. We discovered that our IPad Navionics chart app draws a simple straight line which isn't the shortest one!
So Dave worked several hours on our Imray chart and on his laptop MaxSea program to get the latitude and longitude coordinates for a great circle route. These have now been entered into our iPad Navionics and we will be attempting to track to them. I say "attempting" because the wind is dead behind us when we aim for these waypoints, and the wind isn't strong enough to move the boat. So we are gybing downwind, steering about 30 degrees to port or starboard to keep moving. More wind is predicted in the next few days, so we can only hope that is so.
Today's culinary highlight was pineapple upside cake made with some of the fresh pineapple cut up several days ago.
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| Vessel Name: | Frisky |
| Vessel Make/Model: | Maverick 400 Catamaran |
| Hailing Port: | Ventura California |
| Extra: | Sailing our NEW Maverick catamaran from Cape Town South Africa across the southern Atlantic, crossing the equator into the Caribbean and the East Coast USA |
Frisky's Photos - Main
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Island 1200 miles from west coast of Africa. Stop en route across southern Atlantic Ocean
4 Photos
Created 10 November 2017
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Crossing the southern Atlantic Ocean from Cape Town South Africa to Trinidad in the Caribbean with new catamaran, Frisky. 6000 miles
7 Photos
Created 10 November 2017
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Racing round St Lucia and Heineken Regatta in St Martin
17 Photos
Created 14 March 2015
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From Canary Islands to Cape Verde to St Lucia
88 Photos
Created 28 January 2015
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Mindelo marina and island tour Nov 2014
22 Photos
Created 28 January 2015
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Inland Turkey with amazing rock formations
56 Photos
Created 8 September 2013
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Dave and Linda Witham
Port: Ventura California
