Background: Notes here on our Google Earth tracking of Jacob Adoram
I started this on May 2, when it was true that: After covering 5,400 nmi made good across the globe from Neah Bay to his present position, accomplished by actually rowing a staggering 8,500 nmi (over one third of the earth's circumference) along the twisted course dictated by wind, waves, and current.
Jacob is now well past the 1,000 miles to go mark. This morning he is 961 miles from Cairns and making good progress. Conditions look good for the next 4 days, but there is a storm on the horizon that he will have to negotiate.
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It is now May 8, and a lot has happened. First he is well into the past 1,000 mile mark and getting closer to approaching another milestone of 800 nmi off. This leaves just one more of our 400 nmi range rings to cross.
He has also set the milestone in that there is just one more island group (Coral Sea Islands) to get past before Cairns. He is essentially past the dangerous Indispensable Reefs, with open water for about 600 nmi till the Coral Islands Group. We may need to do some digging to get charts of these reefs.
The real challenge at hand has been a loose cannon storm that has been since May 3rd a classic case of impossible to forecast. He will start to feel the winds of this tomorrow, one way or the other, but it could get deeper. I illustrate present and past forecasts of this in the video below, but need to make a better demo of just how wrong the forecasts have been.
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