Sunday, December 4, 2016
Saturday, December 3, 2016
Vendee Globe three leaders offshore Kerguelen islands
Power and elegance!
Solo sailors Armel Le Cleac'h and Alex Thomson and their IMOCA60 passed the Kerguelen Islands in 1st and 2nd position of the Vendée Globe and the French Navy was there to wave them off.
Fantastic to see their gorgeous yachts fly away and relieving to hear calm and focused skippers on the radio!
other video
Solo sailors Armel Le Cleac'h and Alex Thomson and their IMOCA60 passed the Kerguelen Islands in 1st and 2nd position of the Vendée Globe and the French Navy was there to wave them off.
Fantastic to see their gorgeous yachts fly away and relieving to hear calm and focused skippers on the radio!
other video
(GeoGarage platform with UKHO chart)
(courtsy of Dokelp)
Sébastien Josse (in 3rd position) about foils :
"I think this is the point of tack where there are the most airborne"
"I think this is the point of tack where there are the most airborne"
Links :
- GeoGarage blog : Vendee Globe : the foils user manual
Friday, December 2, 2016
NOAA releases new nautical chart for the port of Palm Beach, Florida
NOAA’s new nautical chart (11459) for the Port of Palm Beach, Florida.
From NOAA
NOAA has issued a new nautical chart for the Port of Palm Beach, Florida, an important distribution center for commodities being shipped all over the world, and especially the Caribbean Basin.
The Port of Palm Beach operations include containerized, dry bulk, liquid bulk, break-bulk, and heavy-lift cargoes.
It is the only port in South Florida with an on-dock rail where the Florida East Coast Railway provides twice-daily service to the port’s rail interchange.
The Palm Beach Harbor Pilots Association asked Coast Survey for the new chart, citing the dangers confronting navigators who approach the port and anchor offshore using the small scale coverage and corresponding lack of detail currently available on chart 11466 (1:80,000).
With more and bigger vessels entering the port, the larger scale inset helps pilots navigating within the turning basin and surrounding infrastructure.
This is especially important because it is located within the traffic flow of the Intracoastal Waterway.
In consultation with the Palm Beach Pilots, the U.S. Coast Guard Sector Miami, Port of Palm Beach (Operations Division), and the Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District, Coast Survey developed the new chart specifications.
All parties agreed that the new 1:15,000 scale chart and a 1:5,000 scale inset would enhance navigational safety and greatly benefit port operations.
In order to create the new chart, new data had to be collected.
The National Geodetic Survey’s Remote Sensing Division collected additional bathymetric lidar data along the shoreline and Coast Survey’s navigation response team collected hydrographic data in the area just beyond where the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers data ends.
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