Heading EAST and EAST again!

Advise just through via a super quick Sat Phone call was to say that all the boats were heading out to the Sea Mount ( hope this is right ). This is EAST by EAST - straight out and more. All the boats will be travelling through the night and will be together. They were doing battle out there with the terrible seas - makes me sick just the thought of it!! They are heading closer to the awful weather but they must have a plan that taking it on is better than waiting till it comes to you - some would say MAD.

Totally forgot to ask about the fishing but did hear via Kelly from Reel Chase the following:

"Jim reported that The Pirate got one about 300lb on Opal today, Dont Ask Me got a big one at Linden Bank and poor old Wild Turkey got 0 from 3 - at least they are there - our time will come. Jim got a small one also on Linden with Reel Chase and Luke on Kekoa got at least one on Number 8. I love it when all the boys are catching fish :-)"

It is great having sources like this to report direct from the seas - Thanks Kelly.

Quick weather update shows the following

TROPICAL CYCLONE OUTLOOK - taken from 3 day forecast

for the Coral Sea West of Longitude 160 EastIssued at 3:12pm on Wednesday the 22nd of November 2006At noon, Wednesday 22/11/2006, the Fiji Met service named Tropical Cyclone Yani in the Solomon Sea near 12.3S 162.5E [995 hPa] some 1800km east of Cairns. All of our computer guidance in the long term shows that Tropical Cyclone Yani is no direct threat to Queensland owing to the lack of any strong steering current andthe static weather pattern in our hemisphere.

http://www.bom.gov.au/weather/qld/cyclone/
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/tropic.html