Bryan wrote:
I've never experienced an absence of wind where I didn't have an auxilliary
(sp?), you know, a motor, to fall back on; I've only read of the scenario.

What is the longest dead calm you've experienced? Were you relaxed, you
know, calm, about it? How long did it take before it started to get to you,
if at all?

If not you, what is the longest dead calm our sailing author's have
experienced and lived to tell?


I once experienced 4 days of almost dead calm in a Vic-Maui race. We
got too close to the centre of the high pressure. For those days we
covered about 25-30 miles a day. It was sweltering hot and we were
misersable.