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Weather Routing

Since our first trip to the Bahamas in 2016 George has used PredictWind software for weather routing. PredictWind takes the weather forecast from several sources and plans a route for the best conditions given the forecast. It includes information on wind, seas, and currents. It will also consider the speed of your boat, given the information you enter into the program. In addition, it has parameters for warnings for wind speed, wave height, storms and even wind chill.  George initially ran the models on his laptop while connected to a marina’s WiFi. While we were offshore he could also run the weather routing models using the Iridium Go satellite phone on either the laptop or iPad with the Predict Wind Offshore app.  We recently watched a “Getting the Most Out of PredictWind” webinar. From that we learned that we could also get information on amount of roll we would experience on a trip if we upgraded the app. If you have been reading this blog for a while you know we very mu...