jimi
Well-Known Member
Mojomo Sat 8th December
Exhilarating sail yesterday with blue skies, high sea, and a squally night.
10am GMT =8am local position : 20deg 56.57N 35deg 09.24W. Wind ESE 6-9,
Swell perhaps 14 metres and rising, SOG now 25-40 surfing to max 63 knots overnight. Blue sky some clouds. Distance to St lucia wpt now 401 nm, so approx distance made good to wpt over 24 hrs is on target around 550nm/day.
After a couple of scary pitchpoles, we've been using the screecher to control the boat in higher winds during squalls, of which we had half a dozen or more last night. Screecher eased off and wheech we just fly over the wave we were going to pitchpole on .. exciting stuff .. we watch the apparent wind dial intently, and wham the sheet out. Keeping vague control like this, and with instantaneous apparent wind of (once, anyway) 145 knots we have a new speed record of 63.1 knots. Stingo is gutted that his own record of 19.2 is dust.
I've flung all the food overboard and emptied water and fuel tanks cos it makes the boat go faster and hey at this speed who wants it!
Exhilarating sail yesterday with blue skies, high sea, and a squally night.
10am GMT =8am local position : 20deg 56.57N 35deg 09.24W. Wind ESE 6-9,
Swell perhaps 14 metres and rising, SOG now 25-40 surfing to max 63 knots overnight. Blue sky some clouds. Distance to St lucia wpt now 401 nm, so approx distance made good to wpt over 24 hrs is on target around 550nm/day.
After a couple of scary pitchpoles, we've been using the screecher to control the boat in higher winds during squalls, of which we had half a dozen or more last night. Screecher eased off and wheech we just fly over the wave we were going to pitchpole on .. exciting stuff .. we watch the apparent wind dial intently, and wham the sheet out. Keeping vague control like this, and with instantaneous apparent wind of (once, anyway) 145 knots we have a new speed record of 63.1 knots. Stingo is gutted that his own record of 19.2 is dust.
I've flung all the food overboard and emptied water and fuel tanks cos it makes the boat go faster and hey at this speed who wants it!
