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05-03-2017, 07:00 PM
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Senior Member
City: Chesapeake, VA
Vessel Name: Grace
Vessel Model: 1982 Grand Banks Motoryacht
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 134
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What is your best: Weather Info
Leaving Soon for a trip from SC to VA on our new to us grand banks 42. Wondering what every one thinks about best place to get weather and forecasts?
Thanks
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05-03-2017, 07:05 PM
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Guru
City: Miami River
Vessel Name: Gotcha
Vessel Model: Grand Banks. Heritage. 54
Join Date: Aug 2016
Posts: 2,988
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VHF radio WX.
Also there are a number of sites that predict the weather many of government produced.
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05-03-2017, 07:06 PM
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Guru
City: Sarasota/Ft. Lauderdale
Join Date: Apr 2014
Posts: 5,438
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05-03-2017, 07:23 PM
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Guru
City: Cape May, NJ
Vessel Name: Irish Lady
Vessel Model: Monk 36
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 4,965
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Try FishWeather and use the "Forecast Maps" option. As easy as it gets.
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Irish Lady
1984 Monk 36 Hull #46
Currently in Cape May, NJ
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05-03-2017, 08:27 PM
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Guru
City: Pahrump, NV
Vessel Name: Pairadice
Vessel Model: Sold Selene 47
Join Date: Jul 2014
Posts: 1,967
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Windytv.com, free app
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05-03-2017, 09:00 PM
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Guru
City: Punta Gorda, FL
Vessel Name: Aweigh
Vessel Model: Nordic Tug 42
Join Date: Jun 2014
Posts: 628
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You should be in range of the local TV channels for the entire trip.
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05-03-2017, 09:19 PM
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Senior Member
City: Wherever the boat is
Vessel Name: Kismet
Join Date: Sep 2016
Posts: 458
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+1 for passageweather
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05-03-2017, 09:50 PM
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Guru
City: Sidney BC Canada
Vessel Name: RochePoint
Vessel Model: 1985 Cheer Men PT38 Sedan
Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 1,744
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05-03-2017, 10:29 PM
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#9
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Guru
City: ketchikan, Alaska
Vessel Name: 'SLO'~BELLE
Vessel Model: 1978 Marben-27' Flybridge Trawler(extended to 30 feet) Pilothouse Pocket Cruiser[
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 2,206
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Vote Windytv.com A site you can trust
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05-03-2017, 11:33 PM
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Senior Member
City: Oceanside
Vessel Name: Cheers
Vessel Model: Bayliner 32
Join Date: May 2014
Posts: 107
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+1 for windytv. They were spot-on with the wind forecast for the Newport to Ensenada sailboat race last weekend. 28 gusting to 35 Friday afternoon, zip after midnight around the Coronado Islands.
By the way, they have changed their website URL to simply "windy.com" although windyty and windytv still work for now.
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M/V Cheers
Oceanside
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05-04-2017, 12:34 AM
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Veteran Member
City: Chesapeake/S Florida
Vessel Name: Silver Lining
Vessel Model: Viking Sport Cruiser 50 ft flybridge
Join Date: Jan 2017
Posts: 32
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Passageweather.com has nice presentation and a favorite
Best weather for offshore passages is noaa wavewatch3. This is what most of the other sites use to get their data
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05-04-2017, 08:28 PM
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Guru
City: ketchikan, Alaska
Vessel Name: 'SLO'~BELLE
Vessel Model: 1978 Marben-27' Flybridge Trawler(extended to 30 feet) Pilothouse Pocket Cruiser[
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 2,206
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Quote:
Originally Posted by silver lining1
Passageweather.com has nice presentation and a favorite
Best weather for offshore passages is noaa wavewatch3. This is what most of the other sites use to get their data
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Hummmmm Our side of the pond's NOAA weather once clear and readable, is not. So complex and confusing that I have given up on it.
Here is an example. Use to be you read the weather by section of the state. Started in Lynn Canal and worked South by district within Southeast Alaska. You knew your district and could isolate it and read it 1-2-3 Now you have to clhick on a site and then a location and then within that location more data. Maybe I am reading or was reading the wrong site, but this is the type of information I was accessing. The 'Canadian' and Windy together give simple clear meaning to the forecast.
http://www.weather.gov/ajk/
Al
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