Weather routing electronically


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Daria Blackwell
Daria Blackwell
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Windyty has added an interesting feature. Electronic weather routing. https://www.fastseas.com/

Has anyone tried it yet? I wonder how reliable it is? I love their disclaimers and warnings.

Vice Commodore, OCC 
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Bill Balme
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Daria, we signed up for fastseas and are disappointed. It doesn't look far enough ahead to make sensible passage decisions. I tried it for our recent passage from the Azores to Ireland. It had me going basically direct, into a light headwind a lot of the way and motoring for over 50% of the passage. Instead, we took an immediate diversion west and got ourselves over a windless ridge an into favorable air - resulting in a good passage with minimal motoring. It's an interesting program, but I think not really able to assist longer passages that require some strategic thinking. Fastseas appears to be more a tactical, short range tool - in my opinion.

Bill Balme
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George.Curtis - 14 Feb 2021
                         Hi George, There are few skills in tradition navigation which went...
Dick - 14 Feb 2021
simoncurrin - 14 Feb 2021
                         Hi Simon, Even if the routing is able to be done underway, that in no...
Dick - 14 Feb 2021
                             agreed. Simon
simoncurrin - 14 Feb 2021
                                 And, Simon, thanks for the fill about the possibility and ease of...
Dick - 14 Feb 2021

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