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  • The Weather Identification Handbook – Book

    Title: The Weather Identification Handbook Author: Storm Dunlop Publisher: The Lyons Press Date Published: 2002 Pages: 192 Price: NZ$20.40 (Book Depository) See the sky and clouds with new eyes and enjoy the depth of greater knowledge. Recognise a cumulus when you see one. See Guide to Weather Forecasting for further reading

  • Guide to Weather Forecasting – Book

    Title: Guide to Weather ForecastingAuthor: Storm DunlopPublisher: Firefly BooksDate Published: 2010Pages: 176Price: NZ$24.02 (Book Depository) “A practical guide to understanding, observing, and forecasting the weather.”Loads of pictures, charts and diagrams to help in the pursuit of weather forecasting. We can look up at the sky and find the animals shapes in the clouds but to…

  • Morning calm

    I haven’t been on the boat for what seems like ages. I am having boat withdrawal symptoms. Too much swell and wind lately. I took this photograph just after dawn last time out. It’s a pleasure to wake up early on a boat. Beautiful and calm. I have been daydreaming researching  a scuba diving course…

  • How do you check the wind?

    I check which way the wind is blowing by looking at the New Zealand flags on the Auckland Harbour Bridge. That is fine if the flags are there. Last week there were no flags. So that threw a spanner in the works! Today the flags are there. What a relief! What was the story? Lost…

  • Rubber ducky weather buoy

    Some people have fluffy dice, lucky charms or religious paraphernalia on the dashboards or wrapped around the mirror of their cars. I have a rubber duckie on the “dashboard” of my boat. It is a special wee duckie. It is temperature sensitive. When the duck is hot it’s pink, when it feels cold it goes…

  • What’s the weather doing today?

    ASHORE Before getting out of bed in the morning the skipper checks the weather forecast to see if it is suitable boating weather using either the radio, a VHF handheld radio, checking the weather service on internet for the local area. CHECK THE WEATHER VHF Marine Radio:  CHANNEL 21 (Auckland area) Nowcasting Maritime radio at…