Given that we are now in the North Sea, an abundance of weather caution is warranted. This area is shallow, beset with current, and not the kind of place you want to test your heavy weather skills if it can be avoided.<\/p>\n
So, we’ve been headed for Great Yarmouth, about 80 miles north of the Thames Estuary. We can get in and out without a lot of consideration for the state of the tide.<\/p>\n
To make things interesting the Azores high is playing games with a big depression situated south of Iceland. Right now the barometer is rising, the most recent forecasts are pleasant, and it appears as if the low is going to move slowly towards the northeast. What we don’t want to see happen is for the low to accelerate in our direction, perhaps developing a compression zone with the high in the process.<\/p>\n
We need 40 hours to cover the 430 miles from here to Tanager, Norway, which sounds reasonable in light of the faxes, GRIB, barometer, and sky. If the weather does deteriorate, the wind will be behind us, and would only be for the last 12 to 18 hours.<\/p>\n
So, we are altering course for Scandinavia… for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"