ORCV Melbourne to Stanley (M2S)

Everyone's Off.

As in heading to the Heads (Basil Brush).

As a result of our good friends at Toll Shipping and especially Adam Manders as well as Matt the Ship's Master and Dave the First Officer of Victorian Reliance, we are with the van and boats like Ice Fire, Yoko and Slinky Malinky were popping out of their pens around the same time too.

The van goes on to the ship.

Here's Ice Fire just off Williamstown, taken from the weather deck as we went past.

Most of the talk up in the Room With A View as the sun went down has centred around the weather, which is changing all the time.

What is Huey planning...

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ORCV Melbourne to Stanley (M2S)

Juicy...

... with a touch of rain, that is. Here are the forecast precipitation charts for your perusal.

The country at 0200hrs

0200hrs close up in our area of operation

1400hrs Saturday.

As expected on 2300hrs Saturday

Finally, 0500hrs on Sunday.

One lucky lady onboard Under Capricorn (who is called Leanne Belt) had new wet weather gear from The Yacht Shop at Sandy all arranged for the race. That'll certainly come in handy!!!! (Tim from the Yacht Shop called the office to locate her, so he could send it, that's how we know....)

Enjoy the sail...

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ORCV Melbourne to Stanley (M2S)

Crazy Weather.

The Brass have very kindly offered you even more material for your consideration. "If you compare the two, four-day weather charts, you will see how quickly the weather is changing."

This original one, which we displayed earlier  was issued this morning at 05:00 29/10/10.

This one was issued at 14:00 29/10/10 - notice the change in the trough...

And the Rain is coming -  BOM's Radar as at 1600hrs on 29/10/10.

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ORCV Melbourne to Stanley (M2S)

Peachy!!!

As in really wet and juicy. Well. It might all be in a state of flux and the tracks show some fairly different ideas as the PredictWind models try to actually determine the outcome of these interesting weather systems. The bit I like is the percentage of time with the breeze on the nose - zero. Me likey that - a lot! May it all come true and may the record be threatened - Peter Blake's Kontrol @ 14:36:15. Let's see...

PredictWind's five day forecast for Point Lonsdale.

PW for King Island.

PW for Stanley.

Some fairly wide variances in the tracks from the different PredictWind models for a Beneteau First 40.

Reaching won't suit this particular type of 40 something, but that is what they're gonna get!!!

PW tracks for a Santa Cruz 52 to show what the pointy end of the fleet will be up to. Get the next Bag ready!!! Why? We look like we might need it.

8 to 20knots and reaching - hope BBB's crew are reading this!!!! Less of the 8 and more of the 20 eh?!!!!

Cannot wait for the first sked to see what has actually occurred.

Enjoy the sail...

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It is with thanks to our friends at PredictWind that we've been able to supply such detailled information for the 2010 M2S.