Vigo - Plymouth

[BruceDanforth]

Just go from A to B.

 

[Roberto]

That is a brilliant quote .... quite an aphorism.

May I use it?

Nice isn't it ?
You are most welcome I read it from someone else so there should be no problem
It's not clear who was the first to say or write it..


http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/06/24/climate-vs-weather/

 

[Blueboatman]

Boat is a Rustler 42, passage plan isn't mine.

Enjoy! Tradition dictates that a log is posted on Rustler fleet, eh? Good for beer credits!

 

[KellysEye]

>Just go from A to B.

Having done the trip from Portugal to the UK the only way to do that is to motor, which is what delivery skippers do on that trip.

 

[BruceDanforth]

It is the way I did it. Sailing as the saildrive leg was full of emulsified oil.

>Just go from A to B.

Having done the trip from Portugal to the UK the only way to do that is to motor, which is what delivery skippers do on that trip.

 

[alant]

Enjoy! Tradition dictates that a log is posted on Rustler fleet, eh? Good for beer credits!

I'm not on the boat, its a secret government exercise.

 

[Wansworth]

If you were going today you would be there yesterday...its blowing a hoolie fromthe southern quadrant...

 

[jdc]

Using climatic data routing from the pilot charts data for April, these two routes come out.

The one with the white boxes is computed minimizing passage time AND percentage of gales
The one with the green boxes is computed minimizing passage time ONLY...)

That's very interesting, do you know what the units are of the numbers plotted? Can't be days as the boxes are numbered 0 to 14. A Rustler 42 should do that passage in ~4 1/2 days.

 

[Blueboatman]

I'm not on the boat, its a secret government exercise.

Watch out for them Government leaks then, and don't tell them your real name Pi..

 

[ripvan1]

>Just go from A to B.

Having done the trip from Portugal to the UK the only way to do that is to motor, which is what delivery skippers do on that trip.

http://passageweather.com/maps/gibraltar/wind/000.png

http://passageweather.com/maps/biscay/wind/000.png

Do behave - OP's travelling March/April

 

[sailorman]

I would imagine that even an Albin Vega could go to windward somewhat better than a Spanish galleon....

BUT NOT, astern

 

[Roberto]

That's very interesting, do you know what the units are of the numbers plotted? Can't be days as the boxes are numbered 0 to 14. A Rustler 42 should do that passage in ~4 1/2 days.

Yes you are right they are not "days", the program (Virtual Passage Planner or Visual Passage Planner I'll check) asks to choose the number of intermediate waypoints (can be one two twenty...), then choose if one wants to minimize/maximize any 1 or 2 variables among: passage time, gales, atmo pressure -not sure what this is for-, wind speed, significant wave height, etc.
Given the polars of the boat, it runs a user-defined number of simulations and outputs the number of waypoints. I think the WP are placed with equal spacing on the rhumb line, then moved perpendicularly with the various simulations.

I happened to have 14 as number of WP, I tried with 5-6 waypoints and indeed there are no big differences in the general shape of the routes.

It's a nice software, though often results are not that straightforward to interpret


I checked the name is Visual Passage Planner.

 

[alant]

Late March/Early April.

Passage plan:
Leave Vigo & head West until 12 deg W (about 180 Nm)
Then head North for about 80 Nm, then 137 deg (T) for Bishop Rock (300 Nm).
From there, head 070 deg (T) for Plymouth.
Refuge Ports (1) Iberian Peninsular (2) Cornwall.

Discuss.

Match reportedly abandoned after leaving & returning to Vigo, due to water ingress, found to be a broken engine cooling water seacock + faulty steering system.