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If you are sailing downwind....my experience in monos shows a daily run of anywhere from 130-180 nautical miles a day. ... Those seem like reasonable numbers to me, but be aware that the variances might be quite high. Nothing is for sure with a sail boat. Even on the same routes at similar times of year I've found that my passage times can vary by a factor of two, and I'm not alone in this. There was a boat sailing near me on my last passage up from New Zealand who had arranged a complete crew change in Tahiti on the assumption that he could make 100 miles a day no mater what. Sadly he ended up hove to for a week and found himself a week late and in the Cooks... I typically plan passages in stages. At a preliminary stage I look at the pilot charts and make a rough guess at how long a passage will take and then double that number to make allowances for waiting on weather and such. This can take place years ahead of time. Starting a few weeks before the intended passage I start looking at weather charts daily to get a feel for the macro weather and readjust my expected time based on the weather I think I'm going to be sailing in. Finally, when I check-out I look one more time at the best wx models I can get and make a final estimate of my passage time and then tell everyone that I plan to take twice as long as I suspect I really will. YMMV. -- Tom. |
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