Like most of the boats, Roxanne will have a large array of high tech wonders. We have GPS, satellite phone, SSB radio, computer and the ability to gather weather information over the SSB or satellite phone. We can get the latest weather forecasts, plug them into our navigation software and it will tell us the optimum course to sail taking into account our boats performance and the forecast winds. At least that is how it is suppose to work, but we all know how reliable weather forecasts are beyond a day or two. So most boats rely more on the human navigator than the computer. In our case Bob is the naviguesser having done this race three times previously.
Click the picture above and you will see the current weather along with the "optimum course" forecast by our software. If we started today, conditions are relatively mild and the computer forecasts that we would take just under 11 days. The forecast for late next week shows stronger winds over much of the course so things are looking pretty good.
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