15th June 34 19.160N 53 19.456W
Persephone... Cruiser/Racer
Nigel & Karen Goodhew...
Thu 15 Jun 2017 21:21
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The last 24 hours or so have been less
spectacular....the wind has slowly dropped off, leaving us wallowing somewhat in
the confluence of two wave patterns, one from the south....with huge long waves
and the other from the north west, shorter and steeper.
If I remember my schoolboy physics, you get an
interference pattern from the two and just occasionally we get a very large set
of waves...although most of the time the rolling is enough to disturb the
sails...in short, there's a lot of banging of the boom!
In the last 5 minutes, I have noticed some movement
in the vang bracket on said boom, so immediately after posting this I am going
to try and effect some support for it.
For the non physics students out there, the
waves are rather like those in a pantomime set....each row moving in the
opposite direction to the one in front and
behind.
In idle moments, we have been musing about the
Portuguese men of war. Some seem to be born to sail on starboard and others on
port. Can they tack? If so, how.
Is their mating a function of collision
regs?
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