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Day 22 - Slow progress to Auckland |
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Wednesday, 23 May 2007 |
| Date | May 23 2007 06:12GMT | | Position | 037° 56'S 172° 21'W | | Speed | 7.0 knots | | Course | 222 Degrees True | | Wind Conditions | N 10 knots |
Tony Bullimore has been able to maintain a course towards Auckland overnight and by this morning's plot was within 670 miles of the New Zealand port.
Conditions remained light yesterday but according to Lee Bruce, Team Bullimore's weather router, the winds will improve today. He predicts:
"12:00 GMT: 340T/10kt
23rd May/18:00 GMT: 350-360T/15kt
24th May /00:00 GMT: 350-360T/17-22kt
12:00 GMT: 340T/10-15kt
A depression moves through on the 25th, with variable wind, will slow progress again that day. "
His advice to Tony overnight is: "It would be good if we can hold course along 37 30S parallel. The longer-range forecast suggests a period of south-ish wind after the depression, so if you dip south of 38S we could still come back north enough to clear the headlands around the Hauraki Gulf, but I'd rather not rely on that wind."
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