Raroia, 485NM S of Anaho
The sea state grew a bit more rumbunctious than before but Lille Ø made decent progress. In the morning we poled out the genoa and continued wing on wing untill our speed dropped a bit too much. If we could keep up 5kn, we still had a chance to make it through the pass with a favorable current. Or so we thought. Timing the entry to an atoll is not an exact sciense. There are no measurement devices around, nor pass schedules provided. The best tool available is Guestimator, and that gets it wrong on many occasions. The things to consider are: tide, wind, waves, amount of passes, pass widths, size of the atoll. All these components affect the in and outgoing current and when they occur.
Guestimator had the slack tide at 1pm. The boats going through reported 5 to 6 knots of current at that time, we came in at 14:30 when guestimator had given 2kn of incoming current, in reality we had 4kn against. Luckily this is a wide pass with buoys marking the best path through. After the pass we motored through the uncharted waters of the atoll and dropped our anchor into 4 meters of crystal clear water and floated the anchor with couple of floaties to keep it away from the choral bommies.
Raroia is gorgeus. Well spend here a while soaking up all the different shades of blue.
- Distance today: 108NM
- Lunch: bananas
- Engine hours: 5.5
| Time |
Position |
Course |
Speed |
Log |
Weather |
Remarks |
| 20.05. 0:00 Z |
14°11'54"S
142°6'55"W
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203°
|
4.2kt
|
17628.5NM
|
wind
7.7kt
72°
baro 1010 hPa
|
Hourly position log
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| 20.05. 0:58 Z |
14°16'10"S
142°7'21"W
|
186°
|
3.7kt
|
17632.8NM
|
wind
9.7kt
47°
baro 1010 hPa
|
Stopped watermaker, 230ppm
|
| 20.05. 1:00 Z |
14°16'19"S
142°7'20"W
|
176°
|
4.9kt
|
17632.9NM
|
wind
10.6kt
44°
baro 1010 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 20.05. 1:27 Z |
14°18'20"S
142°7'38"W
|
198°
|
5.2kt
|
17635NM
|
wind
9.9kt
65°
baro 1010 hPa
|
Sailing vessel Alissa is now visible in the horizon, 8NM away
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| 20.05. 2:00 Z |
14°20'50"S
142°8'27"W
|
196°
|
4.9kt
|
17637.6NM
|
wind
10.3kt
65°
baro 1010 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 20.05. 3:00 Z |
14°25'5"S
142°9'58"W
|
204°
|
4.3kt
|
17642.2NM
|
wind
10.9kt
86°
baro 1010 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 20.05. 4:00 Z |
14°29'35"S
142°10'51"W
|
188°
|
4.1kt
|
17646.8NM
|
wind
10.1kt
70°
baro 1011 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 20.05. 5:00 Z |
14°34'8"S
142°11'57"W
|
206°
|
4.5kt
|
17651.5NM
|
wind
12.2kt
93°
baro 1012 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 20.05. 6:00 Z |
14°38'27"S
142°13'37"W
|
206°
|
4.3kt
|
17656.1NM
|
wind
12.1kt
91°
baro 1012 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 20.05. 7:00 Z |
14°42'50"S
142°15'4"W
|
232°
|
4.2kt
|
17660.8NM
|
wind
10.5kt
110°
baro 1012 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 20.05. 8:00 Z |
14°47'2"S
142°16'27"W
|
189°
|
4.9kt
|
17665.2NM
|
wind
12.4kt
108°
baro 1012 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 20.05. 9:00 Z |
14°51'11"S
142°17'25"W
|
210°
|
4.4kt
|
17669.5NM
|
wind
11.7kt
113°
baro 1012 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 20.05. 10:00 Z |
14°54'42"S
142°18'18"W
|
201°
|
4.1kt
|
17673.1NM
|
wind
9.4kt
113°
sea state 4/10
clouds 3/8
visibility 7/10
baro 1012 hPa
|
Bergie on watch. The wave set from SE causes some hobbyhorsing
|
| 20.05. 11:00 Z |
14°58'46"S
142°18'51"W
|
175°
|
4.5kt
|
17677.3NM
|
wind
11.4kt
76°
baro 1012 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 20.05. 12:00 Z |
15°2'27"S
142°19'43"W
|
174°
|
2.9kt
|
17681.1NM
|
wind
8.7kt
93°
baro 1011 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 20.05. 13:00 Z |
15°5'56"S
142°19'50"W
|
176°
|
3.1kt
|
17684.7NM
|
wind
9.6kt
68°
baro 1011 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 20.05. 14:00 Z |
15°9'31"S
142°19'2"W
|
220°
|
5.3kt
|
17688.6NM
|
wind
11.4kt
89°
baro 1011 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 20.05. 14:02 Z |
15°9'40"S
142°19'7"W
|
204°
|
5.3kt
|
17688.8NM
|
wind
14kt
92°
baro 1011 hPa
|
Light rain
|
| 20.05. 15:00 Z |
15°14'6"S
142°19'44"W
|
167°
|
5.2kt
|
17693.4NM
|
wind
13.1kt
55°
baro 1011 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 20.05. 15:34 Z |
15°17'12"S
142°19'1"W
|
177°
|
4.6kt
|
17696.5NM
|
wind
14.7kt
49°
baro 1012 hPa
|
Sails set: Main, Genoa 1 (10% furled)
|
| 20.05. 16:00 Z |
15°19'41"S
142°19'11"W
|
176°
|
4.3kt
|
17699.1NM
|
wind
16kt
53°
baro 1012 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 20.05. 17:00 Z |
15°25'10"S
142°20'9"W
|
180°
|
4.9kt
|
17704.7NM
|
wind
17.8kt
43°
baro 1013 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 20.05. 17:39 Z |
15°28'14"S
142°20'58"W
|
179°
|
4.2kt
|
17707.9NM
|
wind
14.9kt
34°
baro 1013 hPa
|
Sails set: Main, Genoa 1
|
| 20.05. 17:56 Z |
15°29'36"S
142°21'4"W
|
193°
|
5.7kt
|
17709.2NM
|
wind
15.3kt
34°
sea state 4/10
clouds 2/8
visibility 7/10
baro 1013 hPa
|
Sails set: Main, Genoa 1 (10% furled). Wing on wing.
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| 20.05. 18:00 Z |
15°29'50"S
142°21'10"W
|
199°
|
4.5kt
|
17709.5NM
|
wind
14.1kt
40°
baro 1013 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 20.05. 19:00 Z |
15°34'15"S
142°22'50"W
|
188°
|
3.9kt
|
17714.2NM
|
wind
10.3kt
45°
baro 1013 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 20.05. 20:00 Z |
15°38'50"S
142°24'6"W
|
172°
|
5kt
|
17719NM
|
wind
13.9kt
41°
baro 1013 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 20.05. 21:00 Z |
15°43'24"S
142°24'48"W
|
193°
|
4.3kt
|
17723.6NM
|
wind
11.8kt
37°
baro 1012 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 20.05. 21:16 Z |
15°44'28"S
142°24'56"W
|
183°
|
3.3kt
|
17724.7NM
|
wind
9.3kt
34°
baro 1012 hPa
|
Autopilot activated
|
| 20.05. 21:17 Z |
15°44'33"S
142°24'57"W
|
190°
|
2.4kt
|
17724.8NM
|
wind
11.3kt
39°
baro 1012 hPa
|
Sails down, motoring
|
| 20.05. 22:00 Z |
15°48'19"S
142°25'37"W
|
182°
|
5.4kt
|
17728.6NM
|
wind
14.8kt
42°
sea state 3/10
clouds 4/8
visibility 7/10
baro 1012 hPa
|
Land ho! I can see palm trees on the Ohomo atoll
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| 20.05. 23:00 Z |
15°53'46"S
142°26'27"W
|
196°
|
5.5kt
|
17734.2NM
|
wind
10.1kt
21°
baro 1011 hPa
|
Hourly position log
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