wingdiver
Well-Known Member
What a great day yesterday for popping down the river and sailing up and down a bit. 
We left Foxs a little after high water and motored against the wind down as far as Pin Mill. We then put up the Mainsail and left things like that until we turned into the Stour. The engine went off and Genoa and Mizzen went up and then, for the first time in ages, the Staysail was hoisted too (we tend not to do that as often as we should as it's a bit of a faff partly hanking it on before raising it etc - note to self...look at a furler for this so we use it more in future).
We sailed up as far as Wrabness and then decided to turn for home so we would arrive before low water.
Going back East, we kept the same configuration but reefed the genny a little when the gusts got over 20kts (max recorded nearly 25kts). We sailed all the way back under the Orwell Bridge dropped the sails near Foxs entrance and motored back in to the berth.
Great fun.
One thing I can't do is see the speed through the water as the paddle wheel has done it's usual and got fouled within a few seconds of hitting the water. I did check the max SOG both against the tide and with along the Stour and recorded 6.2kts and 9.7kts. Does that mean we were travelling at 7.95kts in 1.75kts of tide?
We left Foxs a little after high water and motored against the wind down as far as Pin Mill. We then put up the Mainsail and left things like that until we turned into the Stour. The engine went off and Genoa and Mizzen went up and then, for the first time in ages, the Staysail was hoisted too (we tend not to do that as often as we should as it's a bit of a faff partly hanking it on before raising it etc - note to self...look at a furler for this so we use it more in future).
We sailed up as far as Wrabness and then decided to turn for home so we would arrive before low water.
Going back East, we kept the same configuration but reefed the genny a little when the gusts got over 20kts (max recorded nearly 25kts). We sailed all the way back under the Orwell Bridge dropped the sails near Foxs entrance and motored back in to the berth.
Great fun.
One thing I can't do is see the speed through the water as the paddle wheel has done it's usual and got fouled within a few seconds of hitting the water. I did check the max SOG both against the tide and with along the Stour and recorded 6.2kts and 9.7kts. Does that mean we were travelling at 7.95kts in 1.75kts of tide?
