Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Quick trip with DragonFly Cherbourg to Rochfort

2 Places free for a 3 day trip Leaving Cherbourg at the france west-coast. The Dragonfly is already there to the next port of call Rochefort a bit more southerly also on the west-coast of France just above the Golf of Biscay.
Costs are travel and eating and drinking.

Planning is arriving on Friday 27th of August at Cherbourg mechanics are altering some of the electronics, 
Leaving Cherbourg at Saturday morning taking notice of tide currents. We have to cross one of the places with worlds most current Called the Alderney Race It is between the Guernsey islands and the mainland of France.
It is also famous of the magnificent views. When catching the tidal current can get us the very fast speeds.
Passing the the Islands will be very spectacular as well.  Famous because of there enormous range in high and low water which causes a view overland or over sea as far as you can see.
In weather changes the islands can be a port of call or give shelter.
Around the corner at Brest lot a of commercial traffic can be seen.
Passing Lorient which is a beautiful place to see Old submarine army base great restaurants.
This is a possible port of Call 
Passing some very nice islands in front of the French coast straight to the port of Rochefort.

TOTAL DISTANCE 
Total distance in straight lines approximately 400 Sea Miles 


Planning Overview:
  • Arrive Cherbourg Friday 27th August shopping food and beverage
  • Depart Cherbourg Saturdag 28th August.
  • Sail to Rochefort Monday 30th August.
Keep in mind the weather may cause a delay.
If seas are rough we will run into a port for the night.
This could mean an arrival on Tuesday or Wednesday.




Thursday, July 1, 2010

new plans: let's go to Barcelona

we have a new plan, plan is to start sailing in sept-oct to Barcelona.
We will do it in about 6 trips.
Goal is to stay ahead of bad weather.
Total distance: 760+470+830+600+820+700=+-4200 km

Would like to arrive march-april in Barcelona.

Each trip is between 400-800 km.
We can always decide to change the route and do more distance in 1 week.

Who is interested to participate?
Costs are transport & food (-:

Boat = Dragonfly, for longer trips I recommend to be with no more than 4.






The total trip.

all fotos dragonfly trip Denmark to BE


if you click on this slideshow you can see the picasaweb folder

Friday, May 21, 2010

thursday night & friday morning pics













Jan's invention: 3 sail setup, lets get the last knot

best we have done was 8 knots speed measured on GPS and wind was around 3 knots.


normal

discussing



status update friday noon

we are cruising since yesterday morning 5.00am, haven't been on shore.
Through the night there was not a lot of wind but we managed to do an avg of 7 knots.

Slept all ok, always dream a lot more when sailing.
The boat is ofcourse never quite but it was very piecefull.

The boat is not big but very doable even for longer trips where 4 people sleep, maximum is 6 but that I don't recommend for longer trips.

Is now 13.00h
Still 25miles to go to Ijmuiden. Wind dropped quite a lot and we have wind from the back now.
Jan & Rupert are playing with all kind of sail combinations.
Now they are trying out the spinnaker, more fotos later on.
Estimated arrival time 19.00-20.00h

Some first fotos.


4.00am in the morning

sunrise was quite nice