Bob Blog 29 May

Bob McDavitt's ideas for sailing around the South Pacific.
Disclaimer: Weather is a mix of pattern and chaos; these ideas are from the
patterned world.
Compiled Sunday 29 May 2022

At 8am local time on Wednesday 25 May, Lisa Blair sailed her yacht "Climate
Action Now" into Albany, knocking 10 days off the Around Antarctica record.

27 year old Australian solo sailor Lisa Blair now holds the World Sailing
Speed Record for the fastest solo unassisted circumnavigation of Antarctica,
beating Russian Fedor Konyukhov's 102-day record from 2008 and her own
attempt in 2017 when she was catastrophically de-masted in a horrific
Southern Ocean storm. Lisa is only the third person to ever succeed with
this perilous journey which stays below 45 South encountering the storms of
the Southern Ocean. goes close to Point NEMO (the most remote oceanic place
on the planet) and traverses Iceberg Alley east of Cape Horn..

During her mission Lisa also used "Climate Action Now" to carry out numerous
ocean science studies making worthwhile contributions to our understanding
of how the Southern Ocean is changing. Well done, Lisa.

A photo, taken by her family and put on her blog site at
https://lisablairsailstheworld.com/ shows a double rainbow shining as she
approaches the finish line.


It has been my pleasure to act as weather guide for Lisa during this
mission, discussing with her the path of minimum risk ahead with daily
updates via email and text.

TROPICS
AGATHA is about to make landfall over western Mexico tomorrow and is the
first cyclone of 2022 for the Eastern Pacific. There are potential hotspots
east of Philippines and to NW of Australia.

WEATHER ZONES
SPCZ continues to recover after losing a dose of moisture to the south
recently and stretches from Solomons to Vanuatu to Samoa.
A convergence zone between Niue and Southern Cooks is expected to reach
Tahiti area mid-week.

HIGHS and LOWS
Low L1 from the Southern Ocean is expected to travel northeast to 45S 135W
mid-week

High H1 has been blocked east of NZ for a while and this week is expected to
finally move off to the east along 40S following L1.

L2 is tonight in central Tasman Sea and associated front is traveling south
over NZ on Monday

After L2, L3 rapidly travels eastwards: its front is expected to cross NZ on
Tuesday/Wednesday then L3 may cross central NZ on Friday.

After a brief ridge over eastern Australia on Thu/Fri, L4 is expected to
cross northern Tasman Sea this weekend.

With low pressures over the Tasman Sea and NZ this week, it is a good time
to get east or north from Australia or NZ.

The convergence zone over Tahiti area mid-week might delay departure from
there going west.

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