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Heading S. Neaps. NE 4/5. 1.5m 10s swell from NW. Slack water. We are wimps.
Go or stay?
Go or stay?
Yeah, done the big swell stuff, and as you say, in the open sea 1.5m is insignificant. But I understand things can get ugly in the Raz in even relatively benign conditions. We’ve loads of time so would prefer to avoid anything too exciting, but do want to get south from this miserable Brest weather.Go.
Wind is in the right direction. 1.5m swell is, in my opinion, insignificant.
We headed north up from Spain once in a persistent NW5 10 metre swell.
At first the swell was terrifying … one minute you’d be so low you lost boats around you, then so high your nose would bleed but the swell was exactly that.
It actually towered above us as it approached then almost gently lifted us and put us down again.
We were kitted out for a storm. One little bit of water flopped onto the deck.
We laughed.
Nervously.
Then go wide,Yeah, done the big swell stuff, and as you say, in the open sea 1.5m is insignificant. But I understand things can get ugly in the Raz in even relatively benign conditions. We’ve loads of time so would prefer to avoid anything too exciting, but do want to get south from this miserable Brest weather.
Sounds ok to meHeading S. Neaps. NE 4/5. 1.5m 10s swell from NW. Slack water. We are wimps.
Go or stay?
We did it plenty of times in a GK24, sometimes in very big swell. If it’s slack and the wind is not too heavy then a coracle would be fine. It just looks very impressive.What size boat, not a good Idea in a coracle! Otherwise no worries.
You might want to reef the main ready for when you round up S of Raz.