Miami - Nantucket live on Webcam...

What a cool way to document a trip. Great entertainment for me. Our lake is only 200 miles long, but we explore the whole thing. All of this is over a wireless, cell card?
 
jmorgan: "All of this is over a wireless, cell card?"

On pg. 3 PascalG sez: "I use an ATT aircard to upload the cam image and the KML file."
 
Looks a bit snotty this morning. Guess you might have an extra day in port, eh?
 
At last I'm borrowing Pascal's computer to chime in on this thread!

First, Pascal is a great captain. If anyone ever needs a hand with a delivery or a charter and he's available, he should be your first choice.

My role on Charmer is a combination of cook, reservation-maker, line-handler and occasional helmsman (even Pascal needs a break now and then). We also have two guests aboard who do not participate in running the boat.

It's been a great trip so far. "Managing the intercoastal" has had it's challenges due to shoaling in a few places. And we draw 6 feet. But so far we haven't run into anything we couldn't handle.

This morning, Sunday, we are delayed in Charleston by a line of strong thunderstorms coming through. With luck we'll leave around noon. In the meantime, enjoy the picture of Tranquility which just pulled in in front of us.

All the best!
 
What weather source do you find the most useful when traveling?
 
Intelicast 1KM radar and Weather Underground for marine forecasts. VHF broadcasts are near useless as they are often focused on cells over land.
 
a little more detail please? Are these via your pc/cell modem or sat TV?
I also dont think much of VHF Wx but I especially have become dependent on the PIX and analysis on T V weather so I feel cut off when not on dock cable. A lot of important detail comes in the few minutes.
 
yes, on the computer off the web via the ATT/Cing air card. you can also find some radar on your cel phone browser. last resort is the Weather Channel on Sat TV, but not detailed enough.

we're getting 40+kts here, pinned to the dock. had to add some fenders, obviously the grinders couldn't push the boat off so i had to use the engines to get just enough clearance to drop a fender in the hole. nasty... the dock is exposed to about 1 mile of fetch. The 100+ footer that pulled in in front of us before the storm this morning gas a 5 to 10 deg. list due to the wind.
 
Bruce we have become dependant on weather from satellite (Direct) TV which we can use underway. We also can get it via internet (in our area via AT&T's cellular network) within 10-15 miles off the coast and we have the XM weather receiver on our Garmin network. Our VHF weather out of Atlantic City does transmit the marine forecast a couple of times an hour. Severe storms also show up on the ships radar. I think the modern day mariner has numerous tools and methods for up to the minute weather. The most important issue is to be aware that weather can and does change in a snap and to use the tools available to get out of it's way or if in port to stay put.
Bill
 
I can deal with, usually :), local gust fronts because they are mostly just wind events its major frontal movment and lightening I dont like.
 
From today's pictures it looks like a good day to hunker down and wait for the weather to improve. There may be worse to come as there is a very strong line of storms moving east that should get to the Carolinas this afternoon.
Here is a link that shows the docks where Pascal is moored.
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?cp=32.779608|-79.952086&style=h&lvl=17&v=1
Try the "birds eye view" and scroll around and you can see what he meant by big boat country.
 
Yikes, looks like you're really rocking and rolling! Look at the flag on the boat in front of you! So much for Tranquility.

Nancy
 
Given the conditions, if you are going inside from Charleston, make sure you hit McClennanville at high tide. Very skinny through there going down (near low tide) and and a little less so coming back (mid tide rising). Then, remember my caution about coming out of Fourmile Creek Canal: honor that Red 18 ! Like they say, don't ask me why I know...

Life is pretty much a piece of cake from then on, 'til you reach the Rock Pile in Myrtle approaching Nixon Crossroads. You want to stay dead in the middle there. Waccamaw River perhaps our favorite stretch of the whole AICW; deep and gorgeous.

Enjoy!

George.
 
My Guess is that at around 2:30ET they are somewhere around the ICW where you can head up the Savannah river or continue on the ICW.
 
Well I take that back. I logged on Google earth and I was a whole state off ! They were on the Waccamaw River, in South Carolina. They say many river bends look alike !
 
You can tell it's the Waccamaw by the tall trees on each side. Not to mention they stayed in Charleston last night. A lot of Georgia is very very pretty, but the Wacc is the fairest of them all, IMNSHO,

George
 
They must be passing through a poor cellular area this afternoon as the web cam updates are very infrequent. The last picture I saw at 15:47 looked like a real backwoods swamp type area.
 
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