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The YOTREPS e-mail list server delivers weather, news and information services to boats at sea. It is specifically designed for those whose only e-mail access is slow and possibly expensive. Care has been taken to give users direct control over the postings they receive and that postings are: up to date, as small as possible, and contain no redundant text or spam. Messages available include:
The basic procedure for ordering either a single posting of a particular message or scheduled deliveries is to send a plain text message to the list with a command word in the message body. For example, to obtain the system help file with list of all valid command words send a plain text message to the list with just the word "HELP" (without quotes) in the message body. Within 10 minutes of receiving your request, the list server will post back to you a copy of its help file.
This daily summary is a compact list of all position and weather reports received from boats within the past 24 hours. Its great advantage for boats at sea is that it gives valuable information on the position and weather being experienced by boats on a similar route. It is useful to know the positions, courses and speeds of other vessels close by, particularly at night, and weather currently affecting those ahead of you may well be an indicator of conditions you will encounter later. No need to spend time plotting out the 000 Summary, the e-mail format in which you receive them loads directly into the YOTREPS Reporter
This page shows a summary of reports received by the previous net session of the Pacific Seafarer's Net. The Pacific Seafarer's Net operates daily at 0300UTC on 14.300MHz. It is an amateur radio net, and welcomes participation from all licensed amateurs. In an emergency the net offers it services to anyone able to make contact. The net web site is on www.pacsea.org
Bob has been providing his Pacific Weathergrams form the very earliest days of YOTREPS. His thoughtful insights into long term Pacific weather are greatly valued by cruisers and island residents alike. Bob gives special attention to conditions on popular cruising routes and at times when cyclone or other extreme weather activity is likely.
Fleet Codes are a long established international standard for encoding isobars as 5 figure groups. For decades they were sent in Morse and plotted manually but these days, with the use of e-mail and a simple plotter program, the system has gained an upsurge of interest as a quick and accurate way of obtaining a synoptic chart. For Fleet Code plotter software, See the PhysPlot page.
The Meteo France forecast covers a large and important part of the Pacific for cruising boats who for years found it difficult to obtain forecasts for this region. Now the gap is filled and since it includes Fleet Codes you can even plot your own synoptic chart (see above). The Meteo France forecast is given in French though the style is consistent and of such simplicity that you need no great skills in the language to understand it. Check out this French Weather Vocabulary if you need hints. Certainly you need no knowledge of French at all to understand the Fleet Codes. The forecast is in 3 sections - Warnings, General Situation, area forecasts and analysis. Polynesian sea areas referred to in the forecast are as follows:
Issued by the Vanuatu National Weather Forecasting Centre, this bulletin includes the General Situation, Warnings and Area Forecasts for Vanuatue sea areas. |
