Hello All
We rang end of passage yesterday at tea time as we approached Transvaal bay, but realized that neither there nor Quest Bay would be suitable for anchorage.
We established radio contact with the base and also with the local cray fishing boat the Edinburgh before steaming to a anchorage in Sea Elephant Bay to sit out the approaching storm.
We were initially brought up to 7 shackles in the bay, but overnight the winds picked up to close to 60 knots and our anchor could not keep us in position. We relayed our anchor twice during the day with the wind gusting up to 85 knots.
This afternoon we had to relocate anhorage to Quest Bay due to the wind backing onshore at Sea Elephant Bay. Quest bay is good for the building westerly winds, but the Northerly swell is running in high into the bay and will not be suitable for anchorage. In the mean time we will sit on DP until conditions change. Tomorrows weather would perhaps allow us to do some island flying.
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