Comments on: Avoiding Pirates and Storms – Notes From A Weather Router http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/avoiding-pirates-and-storms-notes-from-a-weather-router/ A Blog About Ships Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:25:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Ken E. Beck http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/avoiding-pirates-and-storms-notes-from-a-weather-router/comment-page-1/#comment-14195 Ken E. Beck Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:18:22 +0000 http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/?p=1814#comment-14195 West bound in July from Singapore to the Suez Canal the weather folks routed me shortest route just north of Socotra but the route recommended by the risk management was longer and further north, it was in very rough SW'ly sea and swell. I send the weather routhing agency the risk management route and told them I was following the safer route not the weather route. <br><br>I though it would be very difficult for anyone to board in the Arabian Sea from a small vessel given the rough seas and our motion. The Gulf of Aden was not as rough of course. West bound in July from Singapore to the Suez Canal the weather folks routed me shortest route just north of Socotra but the route recommended by the risk management was longer and further north, it was in very rough SW'ly sea and swell. I send the weather routhing agency the risk management route and told them I was following the safer route not the weather route.

I though it would be very difficult for anyone to board in the Arabian Sea from a small vessel given the rough seas and our motion. The Gulf of Aden was not as rough of course.

]]> By: DWsailor http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/avoiding-pirates-and-storms-notes-from-a-weather-router/comment-page-1/#comment-14194 DWsailor Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:40:58 +0000 http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/?p=1814#comment-14194 I have not personally dealt with choosing between favorable weather and the likelihood of piracy but I do find some comfort when the swells are steep and stacked closely to one another in the Gulf of Aden. Though dhows tend to disappear in the troughs of heavier seas, making them very easy to get too close to, if they were full of armed Somalis rather than the usual heavy weather fishermen aiming an RPG in a seaway would be much harder. It's the blue sky and glassy sea days that worry me. I have not personally dealt with choosing between favorable weather and the likelihood of piracy but I do find some comfort when the swells are steep and stacked closely to one another in the Gulf of Aden. Though dhows tend to disappear in the troughs of heavier seas, making them very easy to get too close to, if they were full of armed Somalis rather than the usual heavy weather fishermen aiming an RPG in a seaway would be much harder. It's the blue sky and glassy sea days that worry me.

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