ponedeljek, 29. junij 2015

First 50 miles

Our first long(er) distance experience with Striderman.

We have a new design on the boat.... (it's not a window)

 


It was a day with only a lite breeze and we just wanted to go to a bay and bath&relax in the afternoon. At some point there was some wind and we said let's hoist the sails and see if we can get some more speed as with the small Honda 2.3 (my 5 HP Suzuki is at the service after borrowing it to a friend and the motor took a bath in the sea :( ). The boat picked up the wind very well, soon we sailed between 5 and 6,5 knots in a breeze less than 10 knots. At the end the wind picked up and we reached 9,9 kts (measured on GPS, pity it was not 10...) The Striderman really goes well... We ended on the 15 miles away and spend the night there.  It's great now with the comfort of sleeping on board :)  The next day the winds were even lower, but we had to sail back as we've been low on petrol as (it was not intended to go so far...). At the end we sailed almost to the buoy and it was a great weekend.


lat/lon: N45 00, E37 00 


 



nedelja, 21. junij 2015

First sail in a light breeze

Finally I came to the fist sail. In a very light breeze the boat picked up very good and we achieved 5 knots. 

The small Honda 2.3 pushed the boat up to 5 kt, with the sails it went faster. Hardly waiting to sail in some stronger winds.





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