----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Leishman" <nordhavn@stratosnet.com> To: "alex hirsekorn" <alexh@olypen.com> Cc: "Norlene Chong" <NCHONG@MACKENZIEFINANCIAL.COM>; "Bob Towery" <bobt@escapetech.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 2:57 PM Subject: Around the world,day 10,jubilation,then letdown By Georgs Kolesnikovs Aboard the Nordhavn 40 Nordhavn Day 10: Dana Point to Honolulu 13 November 2001 0315 Pacific Standard Time Latitude 25.32.502 North Longitude 139.46.361 West Heading 245 M Speed 5.9 knots at 1,395 RPM Distance run 1,302 nm Distance to go 1,029 nm Now, this is passagemaking in the NE Trades! When you awake to start your night watch, you can hardly discern you're on a boat, let alone on a boat in the middle of the Pacific, so gentle is the motion. There is 6 to 8 knots out of the ENE which puts the breeze on our port quarter. There's no moon yet, so it's too dark to tell for sure, but there must be a lazy swell from the north. We're moving right along at almost 6 knots. Have I mentioned stars? Stick your head out the Dutch doors and you almost gasp at the panapoly, if that's the word I'm looking for. Remember, English is not my mother tongue. Now that we're 1,300 nm from North America, familiar constellations no longer look the same. The big dipper is balancing on the tip of its handle. Orion looks unusually upright. The milky way you can almost reach up and touch. Have I mentioned food? Prime rib last night with humongous baked potatoes lathered with sour cream, all washed down with a lovely Mondavi merlot. A roasted chicken the other night. Filet mignon. Made-from-scratch sauce for perfectly cooked pasta. More sashimi than we can eat. A mountain of oniony home fries with bacon and eggs in the morning. Yes, it's quite a struggle to get to Hawaii on a trawler. I just don't know what it is. Day 10: Dana Point to Honolulu 1130 Pacific Standard Time Actually, I do, now that we have the latest forecast from Walt Hack. The damn westerlies are on their way back! The classic downhill run to Hawaii is turning into a slog to windward. We shake our heads in disbelief that, soon, we'll be working to weather again just when we thought the NE Trades were with us at last. Mother Nature is reminding us that this is serious business, this crossing of 2,300 nautical miles of open ocean in a 40-foot motorboat. You cannot just provision up, fill up the tanks, and go. Careful monitoring of fuel consumption, regular re-calculation of range, intelligent adjustments in engine speed, these all make such a long passage an intellectual challenge, as there certainly isn't much physical challenge in a comfortable passagemaker such as ours. Just now, Jim tells me that we'll likely reach Honolulu on Tuesday rather than Sunday, slowed two days by weather 180 degrees wrong. I suspect he's a tad disappointed about not being able to reach the Hawaiian Islands at 6 knots, entirely on account of weather, something that even a successful man like he cannot control or even influence. Me myself, I'm delighted that I have drawn what will likely be the longest and most challenging leg of the entire circumnavigation. A milk run across a mill pond would have been nice, but this will be far more satisfying. --- To: Capt Jim Fm: O.M.N.I. NJ/USA 0615Z 13 NOV 01 Captain, appears the E'rn Pacific pressure pattern is moving toward December a bit quickly. Short respite from west'ly wind, now northerly, becomes var/light Tue/13 then reverts back to W'ly again as new low pressure crosses mid-lats to your north. Also still expect building WNW-NW to NNW swell Wed/14 to Sat/18 along the rhumb line route. Altering route thru waypoint 22N 145W adds about 60nm to route distance, but only minimally reduces swell effects, likely not better speed. Along R/L Hono: Tue/13: N 12-20kt to var/lite, then N 10-15kt late. NW 8-10ft. Wed/14: North to West 20-12kt. NW-WNW 9-11ft. Thu/15: WNW-WSW 10-20kt, WNW-NW 10-12ft. Fri/16: W to NW-N 13-23kt. NW-NNW 10-12ft. Sat/17: Var 05-10kt AM, S-SW 10-18kt PM. NW-W 8-10ft. Sun/18: SW-WNW 15-23kt. NW 8-11ft. Updating. BRgds, Walt/OMNI --- Note: As soon as we can, we'll resume posting reports at http://www.trawlerworld.com, including the ones we missed, and adding photos too. During the unexpected hiatus, daily reports will be directed to Trawler World List via Alex Hirsekorn. If you have a question for the crew of Nordhavn, e-mail mailto:alexh@olypen.com to have your question forwarded. If you are not a member of Trawler World List, you can monitor reports from on board Nordhavn at http://www.samurai.com/lists/trawler-world-list/date.html#end. Watch for messages that start with the words "Around the world" in the subject line. --end--gxk

> Now that we're 1,300 nm from North America, familiar constellations no > longer look the same. The big dipper is balancing on the tip of its handle. > Orion looks unusually upright. The milky way you can almost reach up and > touch. > Somewhere in the daily reports I read something about the boat losing weight so fuel consumption should improve as they go along. Yeah, right!! Sounds like as the boat loses weight the crew stores it for later energy. I wonder if any of them are wobbling yet. Split out pants and extra holes in the belt may be the order of the day. tee hee! docmoss > Have I mentioned food? Prime rib last night with humongous baked potatoes > lathered with sour cream, all washed down with a lovely Mondavi merlot. A > roasted chicken the other night. Filet mignon. Made-from-scratch sauce for > perfectly cooked pasta. More sashimi than we can eat. A mountain of oniony > home fries with bacon and eggs in the morning. > > > > Yes, it's quite a struggle to get to Hawaii on a trawler. I just don't know > what it is.