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Trip report 9/6/03 - 9/17/03
Trying to forget about Isabel for a while.
Started out last Sat. with very light wind 3kts, sailed (drifted) for an hour, gave up, motored to a cove and anchored. At least it's getting cool at night to sleep even without a breeze. Sunday, still light, 5-8kts, took all day to sail to next anchorage. Monday, beautiful, gorgeous sunshiney day, steady 10 kts, put 35 Nm on the knotlog but moored only 5 miles from previous night. Tied to a vacant mooring ball. First time using a mooring. Kinda nice not having to weigh anchor in the morn. Tuesday, unclipped mooring, sailing through the cove I could see the bay up ahead was darker, windier, and lots of white capped waves. Put reef in main and rolled the genny in to about 90% and went close hauled smashing through the waves. Looked at the knot log and saw 7.1 kts. (previous best was 7 ) Pulled the main in some, headed down a bit , 7.2 then jumped to 7.4 and finaly 7.5. A new record! Later in the week sailed through some horrific T-storms and some nice days too. Boat performed flawlessly. Hit no rocks. Can't wait to get back on the water. Scotty |
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Trip report 9/6/03 - 9/17/03
Scott Vernon wrote...
Started out last Sat. with wind 13kts, sailed for an hour, gave up, motored to a cove and anchored. At least it's getting cool at night to sleep even without a breeze. RB |
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Trip report 9/6/03 - 9/17/03
Pulled the main in some, headed down a bit , 7.2 then jumped to 7.4 and
finaly 7.5. A new record! Wow. That's our average this week! RB |
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Trip report 9/6/03 - 9/17/03
Unless there are witnesses on board - then your boat seems a lot slower.
"Bobsprit" wrote in message ... Pulled the main in some, headed down a bit , 7.2 then jumped to 7.4 and finaly 7.5. A new record! Wow. That's our average this week! RB |
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Trip report 9/6/03 - 9/17/03
Nutsy,
That average speed you're talking about, is that with a reefed main and 1/4 rolled Jib? Tuesday was easily the best day of the week...sailed out to Port Washington and back making 7.5 knots the whole way. Probaby the best sailing day I saw all year. RB |
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Trip report 9/6/03 - 9/17/03
Tuesday was easily the best day of the week...sailed out to Port Washington
and back making 7.5 knots the whole way. WIth your theoretical hull speed of 6.7 kn, you must have been surfing those big LIS rollers. |
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Trip report 9/6/03 - 9/17/03
Tuesday was easily the best day of the week...sailed out to Port Washington
and back making 7.5 knots the whole way. WIth your theoretical hull speed of 6.7 kn, you must have been surfing those big LIS rollers. So if you think THS is a rule, then Scotty, Donal, Neal, Mooron and everyone else here is a liar. The C&C 32 easily breaks 7 knots and so did Ghost. RB |
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