St Lucia
WE MADE IT, 3250 nm in 16 Days.
Due to our weather router Erik we had the best wind conditions in the fleet. The wind was mostly from southeast at 20-35 kn and we had an average speed of 8kn. Unfortunately did we rip our 3 spinnackers (2 reapairs) thus we ripped a total of 5 times of wich the last one was most spectacular since we made a Picture Frame.
The brakdown uf the spinnackers slowed us down and I suppose we could a have made it 1 day shorter with proper spinnackers. It should also be noted that our sister ship Mustang dismasted at the first spreader. There was a lot of damage also to the hull since it took a while to cut down the shrouds. We also saw Luffe 44 that was dismasted.
We had great sailing in rather tough conditions with lots of wind and giant swells. It was a amazing feeling to race down the swell with a 60 ton boat. The nights where spectacular with moonshine that made it as light as if it was in the day.
In summary the sailing was above my expectations, but it was a big disapointment to miss the start. The final blow was when we came here to St Lucia and tha harbour entrance was to shallow and we had to ancor outside. We could finally make it to port on the 15th at high tide.
BUT we had lots of breakdowns:
Steering
SSB Radio
12 V
24 V (forcing us to sail at night without navigation lights)
Inverters
Aux engine
Water maker
Frige
Freezer
Running Backstays (very dangerous)
Vang
Spinnackers
Pulpit
Halyards
Winches
Wind Instruments
Fortunately where not all breakdowns the same day, but it was a constant flow of problems. BUT the mood on the boat was very good everybody worked together to solve the problems, but the water shortage mede us all smell pretty bad. But it was also funny to see all on deck with shampoo and soap when we got a rainshower. It was even more fun when the rain stopped before you could wash of the soap.............
I will post pictures when I get back to sweden for x-mas.
Thank you Eric for doing the routing for us it made all the difference.
Merry Christmas to all my friends
WE MADE IT, 3250 nm in 16 Days.
Due to our weather router Erik we had the best wind conditions in the fleet. The wind was mostly from southeast at 20-35 kn and we had an average speed of 8kn. Unfortunately did we rip our 3 spinnackers (2 reapairs) thus we ripped a total of 5 times of wich the last one was most spectacular since we made a Picture Frame.
The brakdown uf the spinnackers slowed us down and I suppose we could a have made it 1 day shorter with proper spinnackers. It should also be noted that our sister ship Mustang dismasted at the first spreader. There was a lot of damage also to the hull since it took a while to cut down the shrouds. We also saw Luffe 44 that was dismasted.
We had great sailing in rather tough conditions with lots of wind and giant swells. It was a amazing feeling to race down the swell with a 60 ton boat. The nights where spectacular with moonshine that made it as light as if it was in the day.
In summary the sailing was above my expectations, but it was a big disapointment to miss the start. The final blow was when we came here to St Lucia and tha harbour entrance was to shallow and we had to ancor outside. We could finally make it to port on the 15th at high tide.
BUT we had lots of breakdowns:
Steering
SSB Radio
12 V
24 V (forcing us to sail at night without navigation lights)
Inverters
Aux engine
Water maker
Frige
Freezer
Running Backstays (very dangerous)
Vang
Spinnackers
Pulpit
Halyards
Winches
Wind Instruments
Fortunately where not all breakdowns the same day, but it was a constant flow of problems. BUT the mood on the boat was very good everybody worked together to solve the problems, but the water shortage mede us all smell pretty bad. But it was also funny to see all on deck with shampoo and soap when we got a rainshower. It was even more fun when the rain stopped before you could wash of the soap.............
I will post pictures when I get back to sweden for x-mas.
Thank you Eric for doing the routing for us it made all the difference.
Merry Christmas to all my friends
posted by Tomas Wängberg at Sunday, December 17, 2006
1 Comments:
Grattis till den lyckade seglingen. Hoppas den har motsvarat förväntningarna - det låter så.
Hälsningar från oss.
Gunilla, Sven o Sophie
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