Cyndi and Rich aboard Legacy
August 21, 2022
This is the final episode in this series and is a post-mortem of the passage: what we did right, what we didn’t, and the lessons we learned.
I’d say, maybe start with this episode if you haven’t watched any of the others. Then you can go back and watch the other episodes to learn how to use the tools we used for this passage.
Here’s where you can find all the episodes.
Table of contents:
0:00 Intro
0:33 Departure Forecast
1:16 Day 1
1:37 Day 2
2:35 Day 3
3:20 Day 4
3:48 Day 5
4:08 Day 6
4:55 Final Day
5:15 Forecast Comparisons
7:16 Lessons Learned
August 14, 2022
It was a rough, six and a half day passage, but we made it from Noumea, New Caledonia to Gladstone, Australia mostly intact. We’ll post Episode 10 of our weather planning video series in a few days and that’ll show the details of this voyage. In the mean time, here are a few photos from the trip.
I think we’ll start with the best – Cyndi’s should-be-award-winning photo of bioluminescence as we sailed along on one of the few calm nights.
The Night Sky mode doesn’t always work out, but sometimes it’s great, even in it’s failures, as can be seen below.
Here’s what Cyndi was going for with this sunset. (Though, I really have no idea what was going on in the head of this great artist. Maybe the top pic was the objective?!)…
And lastly, here’s my contribution to this somewhat abstract sunset-at-sea gallery…
There weren’t many times that were this calm during our passage but I’ll give you more details in the upcoming video.
Just a quick word about Gladstone and the marina we’re in here – “fabulous!” It’s a great facility in a beautiful little harbor, near a really nice little city. We’re very glad we chose this as our port of entry.
-Rich
August 4, 2022
We thought this stop in New Caledonia would be a brief two and a half week visit but it turns out you can replace “week” with “month” and that would be accurate. Those who’ve followed our weather planning video series know the story – there have been terrible conditions between us and Gladstone, Australia, our destination.
Don’t be sad for us. We have had an absolutely wonderful time here on this, our sixth visit to this sensational place. We love the people, the scenery, the surrounding waters, the marina, the food, the cheese, the wine, ok, everything really.
But finally the weather is looking good for the trip and we’re leaving in a few hours. We’ll report in once we make landfall in about a week. In the meantime, here’s a link to our tracking page with hourly updates of our position (if the Iridium GO keeps working!).
We’ll miss you Nouvelle-Calédonie.
-Rich
August 4, 2022
It’s finally here: a weather window that we can accept. Here’s what’s going on including the compromises we’re willing to make after two and a half months of looking and waiting.
Episode 9 is below. The full series can be found here.
