Monsoon

Since leaving the Arvanon Islands on Tuesday we have been riding the first of the monsoon westerly winds east and north towards Kosrae. There have been a few whopper squalls but mainly winds of 10 knots or less. A low to our north and a low to our south both turn slowly; that in the southern hemisphere clockwise and in the northern hemisphere counterclockwise. One is feeding us winds from the north - from Mexico's deserts - and the other from the south - from the warm So Pacific - that are converging with the westerlies blowing in from Africa. For our passage, this has been a beneficial convergence.

Today is Sunday and we are just reaching the longitude of Kosrae, which is 481 nm due north. Yesterday was a particularly squally day and this launched us into the phase where sleep is all we dream of. Too, either of us can now sleep at any time of the day and with any racket going on around us.

At 11/25/2012 and 02:04 UTC (GMT) our position was: 02°43.67'S / 163°00.77'E.
We were traveling 036T degrees true at 3.4 knots.





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