Frank Holden
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About 1500 miles to get past NZ..... and she has to sail 500 miles south east ( about 4 degrees of Lat ) to get under Tasmania.....
If you want a Northern comparison think Biscay in November....
Should we be worried about Jeanne Socrates
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About 1500 miles to get past NZ..... and she has to sail 500 miles south east ( about 4 degrees of Lat ) to get under Tasmania.....
If you want a Northern comparison think Biscay in November....
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Jeanne is in a bad place now but seems still committed to going South to get around the 'great cape ' of Tasmania.
I don't know which will be worse, South of Tasmania or the strait between Tasmania and Australia.
Still with no mainsail and little chance of a calm spell to finish the repair and get it from the cabin to the mast and hoist it.
I don't know which will be worse, South of Tasmania or the strait between Tasmania and Australia.
Still with no mainsail and little chance of a calm spell to finish the repair and get it from the cabin to the mast and hoist it.
Frank Holden
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This looks like a typical autumn/winter weather pattern.... and hopefully brings drought breaking rains to SE Australia... http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/charts/4day_col.shtml
But not so good if one is at sea west of Tasmania...
I have had a look at both models for the next week on Windy and both are how you say? ...interesting?
Low comes over the top of you.. can go from NW to SE or SW just like that..
BoM only forecasts out 3 days..http://www.bom.gov.au/tas/forecasts/centralwestcoast.shtml
But not so good if one is at sea west of Tasmania...
I have had a look at both models for the next week on Windy and both are how you say? ...interesting?
Low comes over the top of you.. can go from NW to SE or SW just like that..
BoM only forecasts out 3 days..http://www.bom.gov.au/tas/forecasts/centralwestcoast.shtml
GHA
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Another cape down..
She sounds pretty chilled out about it all, doesn't seem she's the one that's worried...
https://svnereida.com/podcasts/JEANNE SOCRATES Interview with Stuart Stansfield.mp3
She sounds pretty chilled out about it all, doesn't seem she's the one that's worried...
https://svnereida.com/podcasts/JEANNE SOCRATES Interview with Stuart Stansfield.mp3
greeny
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Hats off to her. Incredible lady.
GHA
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Half way between Tas & NZ, bet she'll be glad to turn left!
harry potter
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Chapeau! (recent bit of French picked up from Netflix) Should it be Chapelle?
harry potter
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Half way between Tas & NZ, bet she'll be glad to turn left!
Chapeau!
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Keep wondering about how many mainsail slides she has in the track, now. I suppose the problem is the weight of the sail. Clearly it's not practical to use the halyard and hoist it - but it might be possible to get a tyer round the top of the sail as far down as the first slide still out, and use the halyard to take some of the weight.
Keep wondering about how many mainsail slides she has in the track, now. I suppose the problem is the weight of the sail. Clearly it's not practical to use the halyard and hoist it - but it might be possible to get a tyer round the top of the sail as far down as the first slide still out, and use the halyard to take some of the weight.
Frank Holden
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Should we be worried? Yes I think so.....
Has she had take the trysail off the track or does she have a second track for it?
https://www.metservice.com/marine-surf/coastal/puysegur
'*** STORM WARNING IN FORCE ***
North of West Cape: Northwest 40 knots,easing to southwest 25 knots late evening. Elsewhere: Northwest 60 knots, becoming southwest 45 knots in the afternoon. Sea very high in the south, easing. Southwest swell rising to 8 metres. Poor visibility in showers.'
NW 60 backing SW 45 will give the sort of confused sea that most can not even imagine.....
Has she had take the trysail off the track or does she have a second track for it?
https://www.metservice.com/marine-surf/coastal/puysegur
'*** STORM WARNING IN FORCE ***
North of West Cape: Northwest 40 knots,easing to southwest 25 knots late evening. Elsewhere: Northwest 60 knots, becoming southwest 45 knots in the afternoon. Sea very high in the south, easing. Southwest swell rising to 8 metres. Poor visibility in showers.'
NW 60 backing SW 45 will give the sort of confused sea that most can not even imagine.....
Kukri
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I have spent a few minutes looking at pictures and whilst I haven’t found a very clear one I don’t see a separate try sail track.
Correction; I found a video. If I was clever I could do a screen shot. There is a trysail track to port of the main track, down to deck level. I’m not clever enough to do a screen shot but the video is here:
https://youtu.be/VUdSixVgV2s
https://svnereida.com/boat-details
Correction; I found a video. If I was clever I could do a screen shot. There is a trysail track to port of the main track, down to deck level. I’m not clever enough to do a screen shot but the video is here:
https://youtu.be/VUdSixVgV2s
https://svnereida.com/boat-details
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Frank Holden
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Word on the street suggests she may have deployed the drogue....
This is the sort of weather I was expecting her to encounter off SW Tasmania...
This is the sort of weather I was expecting her to encounter off SW Tasmania...
Frank Holden
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She has just had a knockdown... more here... scroll down...https://www.qrz.com/lookup/ve0js
Kukri
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https://svnereida.com/blog
Time for a spot of tourism in the Land of the Long White Cloud, perhaps, to dry everything out and put the ventilator back?
Time for a spot of tourism in the Land of the Long White Cloud, perhaps, to dry everything out and put the ventilator back?
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Wind generator now unusable due to broken blade.
Solar panel carried away.
Now dependent on one small diesel generator with a limited supply of fuel.
Cabin roof now has a large hole due to loss of dorade and box.
Much of the cabin is soaked but she does have a dry berth and dry bedding.
Solar panel carried away.
Now dependent on one small diesel generator with a limited supply of fuel.
Cabin roof now has a large hole due to loss of dorade and box.
Much of the cabin is soaked but she does have a dry berth and dry bedding.
Kukri
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Common sense suggests a pit stop. There's nothing wrong that can't be fixed in a few days in port, but there are things that can't be fixed at sea.
Fr J Hackett
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I would tend to agree with you but perhaps she has got herself mentally committed a sort of summit fever. I hope she does stop and sort things out though because it is seeming like an ever worsening situation which can only go on for so long before the inevitable happens.
zoidberg
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She's a very resourceful skipper, and certainly among the half-dozen most experienced blue/grey-water sailors.
I wouldn't think her decision-making skills were in any way impaired.
Edit: Here's a link to her latest, post-knockdown blog report. Her story-post following the KD is, of course, lower down. One gets the sense of a very tough bird now in 'defensive mode'.
https://svnereida.com/blog
She still has her JSD. It 'self-deployed'. It's a real pity she had to let go her second PV panel. She still has comms, and is communicating OK..... for now. There's another heavy system coming on shortly.
I wouldn't think her decision-making skills were in any way impaired.
Edit: Here's a link to her latest, post-knockdown blog report. Her story-post following the KD is, of course, lower down. One gets the sense of a very tough bird now in 'defensive mode'.
https://svnereida.com/blog
She still has her JSD. It 'self-deployed'. It's a real pity she had to let go her second PV panel. She still has comms, and is communicating OK..... for now. There's another heavy system coming on shortly.
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