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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Trip report 9/6/03 - 9/17/03
 

Did you see the exchange between Steve Dashew and the Wanderer in Lat 38?
Dashew tried to maintain that he averaged 10 kn in a boat twice the size of
yours, and he got slammed. So would you.

right...so you just called just about everyone here a liar.
I know a C&C 32, Pearson 30 or even a Siedleman can easilt top 7 knots. You
don't. Which shows how much you know about boats.

RB

Trip report 9/6/03 - 9/17/03
 

Wow. That's our average this week!

RB

At what RPM?

More boat ignorance from Billy Jane. A C&C 32 can't make 7 knots plus under
power. Impossible.

RB

Trip report 9/6/03 - 9/17/03
 

On 19 Sep 2003 20:15:30 GMT, (SkitchNYC) wrote:

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.

Did you see the exchange between Steve Dashew and the Wanderer in Lat 38?
Dashew tried to maintain that he averaged 10 kn in a boat twice the size of
yours, and he got slammed. So would you.

You are forgetting to adjust the numbers for the Bobsprit conversion
factor, sometimes abbreviated as the "BS factor". Seems to be about
50%. "Boat is worth twice what I paid for it" x 50%. "Boat cruises
above 7kn, tops 11 on occasion"...you get the picture. You are just
working with the raw, unadjusted data. Don't forget to apply the "BS"
adjustment and all will be fine:)