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Mac26X fit for all waters
Ed Gordon wrote in
8: "KLC Lewis" wrote in et: "Ed Gordon" wrote in message 8... "KLC Lewis" wrote in et: It would be dumb to sail back. What they'd be doing is more like a delivery captain trip. Have two adverturesome young men sail down each taking a Mac26M and sailing in company for safety. Deliver the boats and make about 20 grand profit or more each. Then fly back to California and do it again. What's an airline ticket cost from Australia to California? Two grand? That's a eighteen grand profit for about a month's work. You could do as many trips as you could during the off season to not run into typhoons. I think you could do six trips a year by flying back. According to sailing instructions it's a downwind milk run from California to Australia. You'd have to cross a bit of doldrums around Hawaii but then you're in the trades and going like all getout right for Australia. Remember how Capt. Bligh went from Tahiti all the way past Australia in an open row boat? It would be a piece of cake in a Mac. -- Cheerio, Ed Gordon http://www.freewebs.com/egordon873/index.htm FWIW, "World Cruising Routes" puts it at 3563 miles from San Diego to Tahiti, non-stop. This alone is in excess of a month of sailing, without landfall, in your Mac. A month's worth of food, water, fuel, etc. This is assuming you make good time and have no delays crossing the ITCZ. Forget about using the ballast tanks for storing drinking water, as you are going to NEED that ballast. And since the vessel is not equipped with light air sails, it would be best to allow at least 45 days for this passage alone, with the distinct possibility that it could take longer. Tahiti to New Zealand is another 2500 miles or so -- in reverse. But you can't go that way. You'll go first to Tonga, then head south. Make it 3000 -- another month. New Zealand to Australia is another 1200 or so, perhaps two weeks. Still think it's doable? We're not even talking about the wear and tear on the "brand new" Mac, or taking time for repairs along the way. Or rest for the crew, or stopping for supplies... It's longer than I thought. How about this? Buy the Macs on the US east coast and then go to Australia via Cape Horn. That way it would be westerly winds the whole way. Just stay on the edge of the roaring 40s so it wouldn't be too rough and it would be a milk run the whole way. One could re-provision in South Africa. Going across the Equator south of the Windwards would be the only light wind area. I meant Cape of Good Hope. Sorry. -- Cheerio, Ed Gordon http://www.freewebs.com/egordon873/index.htm |
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