ORCV Hutchwilco Melbourne to Stanley (M2S).

Not Much Weather...

Andy Roberts gave us a report on the weather as the day drew to a close in Weather Reporter.

Now, as the next day begins, we see that there is not much weather behinds yesterday's little blast.

There was a fair bit of rain to be had up until 0200hrs and it did a great job of flattening the sea, as you can see above, but left a lot of dark clouds around, as well. At about 0630hrs, with all 36 vessels having got away at 0500hrs, we learn that they are in 3-6knots from the Sou'east on a very milky sea. Hooks in the isobars mean they are looking for wind changes in both direction and velocity, whilst they await the stronger Westerly breezes a little later on. Read plenty of sail changes when reviewing that last sentence!!! There were no problems exiting the Heads and the tinnies in the fishing competition were no issue, either. Some crewmembers were very chatty on the phone... Great stuff.

If you want to follow it all with the pretty graphics via the sat trackers from Yellowbrick - see HERE for Flash empowered devices and HERE for non-Flash.

Right then, we had 37 vessels in the M2S, but Chikara Outlaw withdrew a few days ago, so it's 36 now - Addiction, Alibi, Alien, Arch Rival, Bandit, Biddy Hu II, Cadibarra 8, Calm, Cavarlo, Dekadence, Dark and Stormy, Dry White, eXtasea, FullyNPushing, Gusto, Halcyon, Independent Endeavour, Jazz Player, Kiss Goodbye to MS, Magazan 53, Magic, Matrix, Mille Sabords, Mirrabooka, Nutcracker, Pretty Woman, Scarlet Runner, Slinky Malinky, Spirit of Downunder, Tevake II, Trybooking.com, Under Capricorn, Weekend Option, White Noise, XLR8 and Yoko, which is excellent. Well done and good luck to all.

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