Fricken sweet...........

I now have a tenuous hold on that low coming across in the roaring 40's. Making good speed and really hoping that I can stay on the leading edge of the low. I don't think the game takes sea-state into account so falling off the incoming air trough shouldn't be TOO bad. Every ounce of speed is so important to get engaged with that low that I set an alarm every three hours last night so I could tweak the heading!

Every ounce of speed is so important to get engaged with that low that I set an alarm every three hours last night so I could tweak the heading!

Looks like I'm not deep enough into the edge of the system on the rhumline around 26/23:37s and so need to dive deeper into the system to hope to catch it up later.

If I didn't get addicted to video games so easily I might play along. Jake- setting an alarm every 3 hours? Anyone interested in an intervention?

Funny thing about that low was yesterday right at 6:59 am I was positioned right in front of that low waiting to get the leading edge. At 7:00 am the winds were updated and I found myself at the back edge of it. The leading edge moved like 200 hundred miles in a minute.

Yeah, I noticed that too...I thought I was going to be able to hang in there for a while and it just jumped!

Remember the +12 forcast is exactly that; when the clock ticks over, you get the current wind picture for the next 12 hrs.

I had always assumed that it was a snapshot of the predicted wind 12 hours from the current situation.

As it relates to the low, I believe it's "wobbling" and it's hard to see it in 12 hour snapshots. The leading edge trough, while it jumped dramatically last night, has hardly moved this afternoon. I gybed back out to try and reengage with the leading edge.