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Falky foo
 
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Sadly, your calculations are off. It's 100 miles straight. Jibing (the
wind was from the NW) makes it more like 120 miles at least, and that's if
you can steer a perfectly straight course. At 2.5 mph that's 48 hours of
sailing. 8 hours of actual sailing a day plus getting into/out of
anchorages/guest slips and eating lunch on the water, that's 6 days. 10
hours of sailing a day plus the above is nearly 5 days. I was the only one
on board and it was storming with 12 foot swells.. I wasn't going to be out
there more than 10 hours a day. With the motor it took 3 full days.

Thanks for your input.



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I "sailed" my boat, when I first got her, from LA Harbor to
San Diego


OK, that's a SE heading.

sail was powering me at 2-3 mph


That's not too fast.

(the wind was from the NW)


So you were going dead downwind.

and it was storming with 12 foot swells.


So there was plenty of wind.

And you could only do 2-3 mph! Are you sure you had your
sails up?

dudley
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