Well shiver me timbers, batten down the hatches, and set the lantern swinging,
The glass is falling and things don't look to sharp landlubbers.
In fact they are looking decidedly ordinary as far as the future weather goes.
Unfortunately we just received our morning forecast and things are starting to look a bit grim for us. We are heading to exactly the center of the predicted start of a tropical storm.
Being a specialist type vessel we don't have the lines of a normal ship nor do we behave like a normal ship in adverse weather and we are expecting up to 7 meter seas on the current forecast.
This is not a good thing for us.
We have made the decision to try and run to the north as we expect the storm to track south.
If we can get up towards the island of Yamdena it may afford us some protection from the worst of the weather. Just to the left of center of the chart.
We are 10* 20'S 139* 16' E and making 292* at 6 knots.
http://www.charts.noaa.gov/NGAViewer/73020.shtml
The concern on page one is in the recommendations box.
The position is our estimated position over the next few days and on the 23rd our position was destined to be bang slap in the middle of thThe only flaws in our plan are if it develops quicker than the forecast, that we are so slow at only 6 knots flat out, or that it changes course although that is unlikely for storms of this region.
Apart from that we should be fine.
Below is this mornings forecast. e forecast area.
This one shows the wind speeds and expected wave heights
This one is the current scenario
And there I was expecting to get a decent bronzy on the way up to Johor
Bentley
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