Some online services for sailors
It available now two text Bulletin from Fiji Met Service.
The first one is called Public Bulletin, it is a weather forecast for all the Fiji waters and mainland.
The second one is called Fiji Marine Bulletin and it is specific for blue water around Fiji islands.
Both are available on our two low-bandwidth web pages:
– weather page
– weather page with links
Please remind that all the pages are also very good to see on your mobile devices.
We realised that it could be hard to keep track of all the pages and links we created on our server and then find them back in the favorites of our browser.
So we created this new light page where you can find everything in one place: all the links and all the pages.
The pages above are almost the same, there is only one difference. The second page – named “Meteo Link” – shows all the links visible as specific web addresses, therefore it is much more easy for everybody to retrieve them.
Fair wind and calm seas.
We found two different weather bulletins on the Meteo France New Caledonia website.
The first is good for coastal navigation up to 20nm and it covers entirely New Caledonia, even the Loyalty Islands.
The second bullettin is valid for blue water cruising around New Caledonia, between 13S et 25S And between 158E and 172E. It is good for ocean crossing from and to New Zealand and East Australia.
Costal weather bullettin
It is available to download from this LINK.
It is a small HTML page (9 Kbyte) that you can read with every browser on every system: Windows, Apple, Android, Linux.
The weather bullettin describes five regions of New Caledonia that you can see on the image on top. You can download this image from this IMAGELINK (15 Kbyte).
This bullettin is released three time a day: 06.30, 11.00 and 15.00 local time (UTC+11).
Blue water (Large) weather bullettin
It is available to download from this LINK.
It is a small HTML page (4 Kbyte) that you can read with every browser on every system: Windows, Apple, Android, Linux.
This bullettin is released two time a day: 02.15 and 14.00 local time (UTC+11).
Why this page?
Because when you are in the middle of nowhere, sailing in the ocean far away from a fast internet connection, reduced images size is a good compromise for download the files with HF radio, Pactor Modem or Satellite Phone connection.
Disclaimer
The contents of the following links are provided “AS IS”. The information could contain technical inaccuracies, errors and out-of-date informations
Disclaimer
The information contained on www.y2ksail.com website (the “Service”) is for general information purposes only.
Y2K Sail assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in the contents on the Service.
In no event shall Y2K Sail be liable for any special, direct, indirect, consequential, or incidental damages or any damages whatsoever, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other tort, arising out of or in connection with the use of the Service or the contents of the Service. Y2K Sail reserves the right to make additions, deletions, or modification to the contents on the Service at any time without prior notice
Y2K Sail does not warrant that the website is free of viruses or other harmful components.
External links disclaimer
www.y2ksail.com website may contain links to external websites and/or pickup information from external websites that are not provided or maintained by or in any way affiliated with Y2K Sail
Please note that the Y2K Sail does not guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of any information on these external websites.
Revision Log
| Date | Notes |
| 6th May 2019 | First release of the page |
This page contains last analysis chart release from Meteo France.
All these documents are regularly updated by Meteo France at 23.00, 05.00, 11.00 and 17.00 Local time (UTC+11) and they can be downloaded around 03.35, 08.35, 13.35 and 20.35 local time (UTC+11).
So, for example if you need the picture of 11.00 you have to wait the 13.35.
The image (JPG) is cropped to reach a size of 25Kyte.
This image is useful for all the boats that sail between North New Zealand, East Australia up to Coral Sea.
File link:
Latest image-> It contains always last analysis chart available
Why this page?
Because when you are in the middle of nowhere, sailing in the ocean far away from a fast internet connection, reduced images size is a good compromise for download the files with HF radio, Pactor Modem or Satellite Phone connection.
Disclaimer
The contents of the following links are provided “AS IS”. The information could contain technical inaccuracies, errors and out-of-date informations
Disclaimer
The information contained on www.y2ksail.com website (the “Service”) is for general information purposes only.
Y2K Sail assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in the contents on the Service.
In no event shall Y2K Sail be liable for any special, direct, indirect, consequential, or incidental damages or any damages whatsoever, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other tort, arising out of or in connection with the use of the Service or the contents of the Service. Y2K Sail reserves the right to make additions, deletions, or modification to the contents on the Service at any time without prior notice
Y2K Sail does not warrant that the website is free of viruses or other harmful components.
External links disclaimer
www.y2ksail.com website may contain links to external websites and/or pickup information from external websites that are not provided or maintained by or in any way affiliated with Y2K Sail
Please note that the Y2K Sail does not guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of any information on these external websites.
Revision Log
| Date | Notes |
| 6th May 2019 | First release of the page |
Latest update: 29 Oct 2018
This page contains all WeatherMap coming from New Zealand Met Service from the page: https://www.metservice.com/maps-radar/maps/southwest-pacific-low-bandwidth
All these documents are regularly updated from NZ Met Service ‘normally’ every 6 hours, normally at 02.00 – 08.00 – 14.00 – 20-00 UTC TIME
Why this page?
Because when you are in the middle of nowhere, sailing in the ocean far away from a fast internet connection, reduce images size is a good compromise for download the files with HF radio, Pactor Modem or Satellite Phone connection.
Disclaimer
The contents of the following links are provided “AS IS”. The information could contain technical inaccuracies, errors and out-of-date information
File list (all files are downloaded 5 minutes after every hour):
File Actual– > Analysis Pressure chart
File H30 – > +30 hours pressure forecast chart
File H48 -> +48 hours pressure forecast chart
File H72 -> +72 hours pressure forecast chart
Disclaimer
The information contained on www.y2ksail.com website (the “Service”) is for general information purposes only.
Y2K Sail assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in the contents on the Service.
In no event shall Y2K Sail be liable for any special, direct, indirect, consequential, or incidental damages or any damages whatsoever, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other tort, arising out of or in connection with the use of the Service or the contents of the Service. Y2K Sail reserves the right to make additions, deletions, or modification to the contents on the Service at any time without prior notice
Y2K Sail does not warrant that the website is free of viruses or other harmful components.
External links disclaimer
www.y2ksail.com website may contain links to external websites and/or pickup information from external websites that are not provided or maintained by or in any way affiliated with Y2K Sail
Please note that the Y2K Sail does not guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of any information on these external websites.
Revision Log
| Date | Notes |
| 29th October 2018 | Change file format to GIF for a better manage in Airmail software |
| 21st October 2018 | Change name of file, now they are more intelligible |
| 20th October 2018 | First release of the page |
This page contains all WeatherMap coming from Fiji Met Service.
Update this page and contents May 5th 2019 due to a new Fiji Met website
All these documents are regularly updated from Fiji Met Service every 3/4 hours and all images are cropped and resized to almost 30Kb.
Why?
Because when you are in themiddle of nowhere, sailing in the ocean far away from a fast internetconnection, reduce images size is a good compromise for download the files withHF radio, Pactor Modem or Satellite Phone connection.
Because when you are in the middle of nowhere, sailing in the ocean far away from a fast internet connection, reduce images size is a good compromise for download the files with HF radio, Pactor Modem or Satellite Phone connection.
Disclaimer
The contents of the following links are provided “AS IS”. The information could contain technical inaccuracies, errors and out-of-date information
File list (all time are in Fiji Local Time GMT+12):
3AM FST Surface Mapavailable daily from 05.00am
6AM FST Surface Map available daily from 09.30am
09AM FST Surface Map available daily from 11.00am
12PM FST Surface Mapavailable daily from 03.00pm
03PM FST Surface Mapavailable daily from 05.00pm
06PM FST Surface Mapavailable daily from 08.30pm
12AM FST Surface Map available daily from 03.00am
Disclaimer
The information contained on www.y2ksail.com website (the “Service”) is for general information purposes only.
Y2K Sail assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in the contents on the Service.
In no event shall Y2K Sail be liable for any special, direct, indirect, consequential, or incidental damages or any damages whatsoever, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other tort, arising out of or in connection with the use of the Service or the contents of the Service. Y2K Sail reserves the right to make additions, deletions, or modification to the contents on the Service at any time without prior notice
Y2K Sail does not warrant that the website is free of viruses or other harmful components.
External links disclaimer
www.y2ksail.com website may contain links to external websites and/or pickup information from external websites that are not provided or maintained by or in any way affiliated with Y2K Sail
Please note that the Y2K Sail does not guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of any information on these external websites.
Welcome to Y2K Sail.
This site is new. Really new.
We start to develop in Tahiti, where we are now, in August 2018.
Why?
Because we need a service online for download some images, from Meteo France, that are too big to download with SSB Radio on board.
So, we develop in a couple of days some routines that download images from some weather sites and after a resize they are ready to download with a low bandwidth device.
I you are interested, leave a comment and as soon as we have an internet connection we will answer for sure.
