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Taitonga - Weatherlinks
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Weather and currents Wetterinfos und Strömungen - Global - Pacific - Caribbean - UNDER WAY - How to: emails, Gribfiles, SSB-Weathercharts, Tides, Pilotcharts - Local |
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"Es kommt nicht darauf an, woher der Wind weht, sondern wie man die Segel setzt."
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PACIFIC Via query@saildocs.com (e.g. on the Iridium) we access: Gripfiles (we use zygrip.org as well) Isobar-Charts and Text from NOAA- and Fidji-Meteo-Data Currents OSCAR from NOAA-Data Weathergram from Bob McDavitt in Newzealand, weekly |
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SAILDOCS-Codes for email-requests [01/2019] (their help- and infosites sucks, but the hosting-service is good,
IF you know the codes!) email to query@saildocs.com Subject: blank or your choice (e.g. what, where ...) Body: See below
Saildoc-codes for cut and paste => underneath the explanations:
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Going West ...: TSUNAMI-WARNINGS
WEATHER
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We use following 6 links via SSB (and Iridium-Satphone) to get the whole story in addition to the gribs
On the way to the Marquesas it might be possible to catch the BBC-NEWS on SSB 9413 at different times. |
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Panama:
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CARIBBEAN: Generell: Hurricanewatch |
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Emails Under Way We get weatherinfos via Internet or Iridium (some via SSB). We have 5 different email-adresses from different providers for this purpose (we do not tell these adresses to anyone!). The reasons for having that many are - If one adress is blocked e.g. spam or big data-files or just not working we can use another one - Sometimes e.g. gmail blocks the account, because they do not understand, that we are travelling and change countries aswell we use a program to hide our ip-adress out of security-reasons and change countries through that All these adresses are configured in Thunderbird as "only text" because some mailrobots will refuse html AND only-text-mails are smaller files! We use the free WEATHERGRAM (ca. weekly) from Bob McDavitt in Newzealand covering the whole S-Pacific and the Way from Panama to Galapagos Send an email to yotreps@pangolin.co.nz - subjectline must be free in the body (casesensitive): WEATHERGRAM NOAA-Data via query@saildocs.com to where we send an email request to and recieve the data in an email-answer on the spot or after a couple of minutes (it should be possible to get the weatherinfo directly from NOAA aswell, but to find the exact page on their website was impossible for me) For infos on how and what to recieve, send an email to query@saildocs.com (subjectline can be anything or free): in the body: send info send index Gribfiles We use gribfiles for planning our passages, they were the only source during our atlantic-crossing via sat-phone: SSB-Chart-Programs We get some weathercharts mentioned above through our SSB, which we connect with an audiocable with out laptop. We use following software for this: Tides For tideprediction we use our Raymarinecharts (not happy with the lighthouse-software) and following software: Pilotcharts For generall planning we have a look in the Pilotcharts of the NGA (National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency), which shows averages in prevailing winds and currents, etc: |
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LOCAL WEATHER We use Windguru and Windfinder for Forecasts especially when we are close to shore, because l think they uses local „corrections“, which are not included in the gibfiles (anyway: Do not trust forecasts! Use your senses) |
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