A new record...

[photodog]

Well for us anyway...

8.4 knots sog under the foresail, in a 9.5 meter awb!





Excellent!

 

[Seajet]

8.3 knots tide ?!

 

[photodog]

Well its a 9.5 meter boat.... So at hull speed....

 

[SimbaDog]

Was the tax man chasing you?

 

[maby]

Well its a 9.5 meter boat.... So at hull speed....

Hmmm, hull speed is relative to the water, not the ground - we were clocking over 9 kts SOG down the Barrow Deep last week - admittedly under engine, not sail - in a sub-10m boat. Speed over water was showing 6.5 kts.

 

[photodog]

Ok, no taxman... And about 1.5 knots tide... So i figure i had us maxed out and under control for a good hour and a half, which is pretty good for us!

And it was wind overtide!

 

[Seajet]

We've got a photo somewhere of my Dads' Centaur clocking 13.8 knots on the Decca; he did happen to be in the Alderney Race at the time.

 

[SimbaDog]

Could have been worse, you might have been walking round the grounds of Bolton Abbey, trying to look interested!

 

[photodog]

Could have been worse, you might have been walking round the grounds of Bolton Abbey, trying to look interested!

Did you go to the devonshire arms for a refreshment?

 

[maby]

It's also worth pointing out that "hull speed" is not a speed limit - for most boats it is a relatively meaningless concept.

 

[SimbaDog]

Did you go to the devonshire arms for a refreshment?

No some poxy expensive cafe with carp food!

 

[photodog]

It's also worth pointing out that "hull speed" is not a speed limit - for most boats it is a relatively meaningless concept.

Please dont spoil my pleasure at seeing things on my plotter never seen before!



At least not seen whilst under control anyways...

 

[photodog]

No some poxy expensive cafe with carp food!

You should swing through on your way south then....

 

[maby]

Please dont spoil my pleasure at seeing things on my plotter never seen before!



At least not seen whilst under control anyways...

Your "hull speed" is probably around 8 knots anyway, so if you had 1.5 following tide, you still had a way to go anyway!

 

[Pinnacle]

Two pics below. First shows our record and the second, the reason why!

 

[photodog]

Your "hull speed" is probably around 8 knots anyway, so if you had 1.5 following tide, you still had a way to go anyway!

Boooooo!


Actually i think its 7.1 according to a formulla i saw...


I think the previous fastest sog i have seen was around 7.5...

 

[LittleSister]

It's not that recycled curry, is it?

 

[Twister_Ken]

11.4 kts astern. Well not quite but currently Mr Garmin is insisting we are facing backside forward and we clocked 11.4 SOG popping back into the Solent from the N Channel yesterday evening.

 

[Frankie-H]

We once saw over 15kn on our GPS in the Golf de Morbihan. The boat is an ancient Moody 42.

 

[aquaplane]

We managed 11.5Kts surfing down a wave in a Sunsail Sunrise 34', about half the jib out. It was more usual to see 6 or 7 Kts that day though. No tide.

Our Centaur touched 7.1Kts for an instant in a gust yesterday, never seen that before. Weather helm was getting a bit out of hand, it was very ballanced with the reef in before that.