Sods law ..

[jimi]

Just back after logging 350 miles in 15 days around Channel Islands & N France .. and finally got the autopilot to function properly just after re -entering Solent last night ... grrr!

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[dralex]

It must be all them magnetic nomolie fingies

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[Moose]

Perhaps it only points to home?

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[pugwash]

How did you sort out your crew transfer problem?

I went to Falmouth then Brest and back to Plymouth. Away three weeks, covered about 300 miles and hoisted sail for two hours. Flat calm the rest of the time. Also had trouble with autopilot and read in the handbook that it can be tricky when steering dead north (or south) which in my case it was doing. Haven't figured out how to fix it. Great trip though.

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[Gunfleet]

Hi Jimi. It took us 34 hours to motor from Guernsey to Brighton last week-end in a flat calm in that old bilge keel thingy. Imagine, it goes so slowly it drops off the backs of the tides in the channel.

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[Twister_Ken]

Took the a/p a while to realise that it was connected to a rudder again?

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[jimi]

Hope you did'nt get any of the fog that your son was so worried about! We did .. left St Vaast to come back across and just clear of Barfleur ran into thick fog .. 100yds max vis!.. kept going for 90 minutes hoping to clear it but diverted to Cherbourg when it did'nt. Very Strange Cherbourg was totally clear but there was a wall of fog right down the middle of the channel c 5 miles offshore

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[powerskipper]

Solent coastguard put a security message out on Wednesday evening about fog, it was just south of the IOW, and they thought it mite come into the Solent, but there was no sign of it on Thursday.
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[jimi]

Plan changed to take all crew from start ! Passage plan was St PP and then all points south. Left Yarmouth early am on the ebb for St PP, timing was perfect for Alderney Race but crew was ill so went to Braye and then got stuck in CI. next stop St PP and family refused to move for a couple of days .. went to Sark & then Jersey .. back to anchor at Herm and then round to Cherbourg (8+ knots of tide in the race.. memo for future don't cut corner at Cap de la Hague in anything more than F0!!!!) .. round to St Vaast (wonderful fireworks) and then unplanned trip back to Cherbourg after channel fog. 350 miles in searing heat, no rain and little wind (apart from F6 from Sark to St PP) reckon sailed about 150 miles and motored 200.

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[Gunfleet]

No fog. The main problem was not getting sunburned/hoping my ears would last out listening to the Yanmar YSE8 going boom boom boom boom for all that time. When we got back I had to go and commune with my Nicholson, just to remind myself what a real boat is like!

I know what you mean about fog and Cherbourg. We went across a few years ago and it was thick from the middle of the Channel until we got inside Cherbourg outer harbour. The inner harbour and the town were in crystal clear daylight, though. Weird.

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[LadyInBed]

When did you return? I was in St V Wednesday and Thursday, did we pass in the night? I left at 04:00 BST Friday just before the gate shut and got back to Poole 20:00. Didn’t see any sign of the fog until I tried to get back up to Wareham this morning, 20 mtrs vis.

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[jimi]

Left St Vaast when the lock gate opened Wed Am.. saw no fog until clear of Barfleur.On leaving St V I stuck well in trying to catch any back eddy.

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[powerskipper]

about fog

Have a look here

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[pragmatist]

Re: about fog

Don't worry about it - they're just Americans

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