
Offshore Weather // Andy's Essay
On the Wind Sailing
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How to Avoid Ocean Seasons
My dad used two main sources to provide this info both free The first was Noah's high seas text forecasts These are based on large very general areas of the world's oceans and give you a good wide picture. You can try a program called pocket Grib for your iPhone and iPad. It's like five bucks, but it's really good I'd call dad with our position every few days He'd take 15 minutes to gather the weather info and then I'd call him back On our passage chart. One huge caveat is that Gribs are raw data displayed by a machine Meteorologists use that same data and interpret it to create forecast which are sometimes but not always more accurate.
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