The MJO explained. There are a number of weather phenomena that affect South Pacific Weather, the Madden Julian Oscillation is one! It’s named after its discoverers, meteorologists Roland Madden and Paul Julian. Imagine the MJO as a traveling pulse or wave in the atmosphere that moves eastward along the equator, primarily in the Indian […]
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PREPARING- THE IDEAL CRUISING BOAT. You’ve bought the best boat you could within your budget! Now, you’re standing on the dock saying, what’s next? It’s been said before, “preparation is everything”, when it comes to preparing a boat to go cruising they are right on, but at first sight the task looks daunting. When Lyn
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The world’s most advanced tidal current model. PredictCurrent is the most advanced source of tidal and ocean current modelling available on the market. In a world first, our team of oceanographers have produced tidal current maps for almost all the coastlines of the world, with unparalleled accuracy and resolution. 4km, 400m and 100m resolution. With
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Over 40 articles and growing! This is just one example of what’s on offer with the Mi Weather “Learn” Subscription. Click HERE to find out more. Jet Stream Dynamics Explained! The jet streams are fast-flowing, narrow, meandering air currents in the atmosphere that forms at the boundaries between air masses of contrasting temperature. There are
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More on the MJO Image Courtesy of NOAA The image here shows the NOAA forecast progression of the MJO from 20th of November to the 4th of December in Red and Blue. The progression is East firstly over the Indian Ocean then the Maritime Continent, Australia. It shows, historically, a rotation in the Western Hemisphere
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Comms & Technology Update PredictWind DataHub, Iridium Go exec & StarLink We’ve recently installed three new items on Windflower. The Iridium Go exec to replace our aging Iridium Go, StarLink and PredictWind’s DataHub. The Iridium Go exec is a definite upgrade from the Iridium Go. The exec is significantly larger than the Go, but is
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The concept of tandem anchoring is very popular amongst the boating community. On internet message boards, the topic seems to be raised nearly as often as discussions on anchors themselves. This article is intended to provide an overview of tandem anchoring. Using multiple anchors on boats is fairly common, and various well recognized arrangements exist
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Offshore Cruising Preparation Masterclass The next running of this event is scheduled for July 29th If you Missed the Course Focused Webinar you can catch it HERE Webinar Replay To Express your Interest in the course please Click HERE EOI Sign Up This Offshore Cruising Preparation Masterclass will take aspiring offshore cruiser’s from “How do
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Comms & Electronics Probably one of the fastest areas of growth and change in boating over the last couple of years has been in the area of Comms and Electronics. It’s not that long ago ( less than 35 years) that cruisers navigated by the sun and the stars, looked up at the sky to
