day2
Gaviota
Thu 30 Jul 2009 10:04
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38:13.84N 08:28.74E
last 24 hours (ie till 11.30 this am) did a staggering
distance of ... 81 miles!!!!!! (3.4 knots average .. and thats rounding
up!!!)
Well the wind yesterday morning didn`t last.... dropped
and by 3pm was trickling along at about 2 knots in 5 knots or
less on a broad reach... spinnaker still set as an assymetric.... Then for about
1.5 hours up came the wind to about 10 knots only to drop back steadily further
till by 7pm I was down to about a knot in under 5 knots of wind... and still
dying. In the end gave the spinnaker up as not enough wind to fill it and my
speed actually increased to 1.1 knots!!!!!! (was about 0.9). well dark by now
but lots of ships going round the southern end of sardinia so stayed on deck in
tee shirt and shorts (not done that at night since the carribean) till 1 pm when
at last - i saw no ships - but my now the speed had nearly doubled ...2knots
whey hey!!!! During the night the wind came up quite nicely and in
another couple of hours we were trecking along at 5 to 6 knots with only very
minor tweeking. .....
Morning ... wind had dropped a bit and still very broad reach
... so had to decide ... spinnaker on the pole to windward or pole out the genny
to leeward .... well given the boat speed (4/5 knots) we were already
doing didnt want to increase too much or will arrive at Bizerte in the middle of
the night.... so went for the - pole out the jenny option .... which
worked fine... stopped the banging and slapping and a bit more speed.... until
just now when the wind has shifted those few degrees to make it a dead run ...
so genny doing nothing .... will leave it for a while, had lots of shifts like
this yesterday.
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