There are visitors coming for whom I have to prepare MaRe especially. This time the visitor will arrive on the 22nd in the very early morning hours and is called “Dujuan” and has the JMA number T2625 or the Japanese number 台風25号, the 25th typhoon in this season in the NW Pacific area. Not all of them paid a visit to Japan. The Japanese naming with numbers starting every year from zero, I consider the best; the usage of names I consider as a bit impractical. 

I prepared MaRe for it. All things in the cockpit are stored away. One additional bow line and an additional fender at the stern. Lines are tied up. Sail bag of the main sail is tied with a special line onto the boom. Cockpit is empty.

When I look at other boats in the same bay, MaRe is pretty well prepared.

According to the JMA forecast, which is the best available, there is a 70 % chance that the center of the typhoon stays within the white cone.

The red circles is the area of winds of 50 KN winds and more. The red cone shoes where this area could pass and i don’t like this at all.

The yellow circle indicates the winds with 30 KN. A bit on the high side but still kind of OK. I sailed several times with winds even above 30 KN. Once it goes above 35 – 40 KN it’s no fun anymore and out in the ocean I would go on a running course with strongly reduced sails and try to get mile for mile between me an the typhoons center. 


Let’s see what the typhoon does!


If you like to follow the typhoon you can do here (its the English site of the Japan Meteorological Agency): https://www.jma.go.jp/bosai/map.html#4/36.772/144.844/&elem=root&typhoon=TC2630&lang=en&contents=typhoon they update typically the chart every 12 h. Displayed time is alway UTC. In CEST you are now at UTC+2, Japan is UTC+9. You can look for the UTC time of your city here: https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/japan/tokyo and look for your city.