sailaboutvic
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First sail just a short 110 nm and we knacked , is it old age creeping in , or is this normal ?
If nothing else it just great to be back at sea .
If nothing else it just great to be back at sea .
First sail of 2016
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RichardS
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Presumably an overnight sail with just you and Mrs Vic aboard?
Knackering at any age I reckon.
From and to .......?
Richard
Carmel2
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My guess Malta??
Mrnotming
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Was any of the voyage in darkness?
I find my eyes generate multiple lighthouses on the 04.00 watch!
sailaboutvic
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No darkness involved , I should had said 110 nm round trip with five days in Malta to break the trip up .
A very bumpy ride both ways , one of them toe rail in the water jobs even with reef sails , more wind then forecaster and for the first sail of the season we could had done with a more comfortable sail , by hey we don't always get what we want , where would be the fun in that .
We quite like night sailing not too keen in arriving in a new port in the dark so we try and time are arrival in day light , although that don't always work .
We still talk about the time we set out for Morocco to arrive around day break , it was one of the fastest sail we had , no matter how much we tired to slow our self down , our boat wasn't having any of it , 0430 heaving to on the Morocco coast waiting for day light .
syneraida
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Just finished 130ish mile sail from Elba to Menton (last leg of a 1200 mile trip over 2 weeks), like your trip it was rougher than predicted we had a steep swell on the port quarter, causing a lot of rolling (toe rail to to rail at times) and on arrival in Menton we were nackered, more so than any other part of the trip.
A rolly/rough trip always takes it out of me, sometime more so when only a (24hr) day sail rather than a longer distance, because you tend to stay awake more than you would on a longer trip, because you say to yourself "it's only a day we'll be there soon", if its a longer trip you get your sleep where you can because you know you'll need it.
P.S. My wife and I are 34 and 35 respectively, so don't think its an age thing
A rolly/rough trip always takes it out of me, sometime more so when only a (24hr) day sail rather than a longer distance, because you tend to stay awake more than you would on a longer trip, because you say to yourself "it's only a day we'll be there soon", if its a longer trip you get your sleep where you can because you know you'll need it.
P.S. My wife and I are 34 and 35 respectively, so don't think its an age thing