Let shoreside relatives and friends feel a part of your next voyage by plotting your daily positions on the web. The service is free and there are other benefits:
Planning an ocean passage for a small vessel is a critical operation. Get it wrong and the voyage may be slow, difficult, uncomfortable or even dangerous. One can never guarantee that the weather will be on side but choosing the optimum route and time of year could make the journey a pleasure and save on time and fuel.
In the summer of 2006, a thirty-one-year-old expat Kiwi, Ben Tucker, set off from Tasmania in his small home-built yacht with the tentative goal of reaching mainland Antarctica. As crew he had recruited his youngest brother Matt. His destination was the remote Mawson’s Hut at Cape Denison - statistically the windiest sea-level location on the planet - with a possible diversion to the South Magnetic Pole. His budget could not even stretch to a second-hand radar...
Plot your next offshore passage on the web
