Merry Christmas Steve and Linda: We’re planning an Atlantic Crossing via Bermuda, Azores, Portugal in June. We have a 1998 Valiant 42. I have Inmarsat C and SSB aboard. What is your advice for a daily routine for getting the weather forecast predictions as we cross? Also, I have your book on weather. Thanks and the best of New Year’s to you. Thanks, Roy
HI Roy: If we stick with our present plans we’ll be crossing at the same time. There are a series of weather sources. You have the updates on SatC which are frequent and free, and of course the usual faxes from the US and the UK. In addition, if you have Sailmail capability using the new Saildocs format you can get small grib files. You the need software which will read the grib files (we are using SetSail/MaxSea–see the MaxSea part of this website). You can also use Sat C for larger grib files. Another approach is using an Iridium phone for the grib files (which is what we’ll be doing). See you out there–Steve
Posted by Steve Dashew (November 30, 1999)
