Friday, May 21, 2010
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
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
Thursday, May 20, 2010
status update thursday 20 May
Satelite internet doesn't work, damned.
So have to wait till when we are close enough to shore to send a post out.
Sending video's wont be possible today.
Thanks to Jan's trick we are still going quite well. Only 6.5knots now but there is almost no wind.
We will sail through the night trying to get to ijmuiden tomorrow in time to have a party with whatever dutch guy who wants to join us there (or belgium).
Looks like we will have to use the engine at a certain point in time, wind is dying on us.
This morning was exciting but not easy.
We left Tuxhaven with 25-28 knots of wind.
We had to motor for 3 hours against the wind trying to get out next to a very bussy shipping lane.
It was cold and way too early (5.00am).
Once out of the Elbe we got nice waves (3m) and good wind. The boat was doing great.
I was steering trying not to get sick. Jan took over around 10.00am and I went to bed for a couple of hours trying to sleep while the boat goes up and down 2m.
Got seasick again. Why the hell do I like boats, they allways make me sick.
Jan, Mario & Rupert were battling the wind we were still going a little upwind and had to tack.
We are tacking a full day know but its not completely against the wind, we just can't go parrallel with the cost so always have to tack to go back into the sea and loose it again.
I felt bad till 15.00h or so, wondering why I like boats.
Jan has a smile on his face for the full day already and is constantly tweaking the sails, I think he recognises linux in it, needs as much work to keep it going.
In the afternoon between 15.00h & 19.00h we didn't make that much progress.
In the morning we had an average of maybe 12 knots in the afternoon I don't want to know.
Know we are doing well thanks to Jan's trick.
Right now Rupert is coocking again, we always get lovely english specialties, .... )-:
It's quite funny though we bought all our food in denmark and now we have to figure out how to cook it.
Most of the things we want to cook need ingredients which we don't have or don't understand.
Anyhow we drunk some whisky cola's to forget our misery (-: and everything looks bright again.
Our ETA for Ijmuiden is now 18.00h tomorrow, hopefully we make it, we will just keep on going through the night taking shifts.
Regards
Rupert, Mario, Jan, Kristof
So have to wait till when we are close enough to shore to send a post out.
Sending video's wont be possible today.
Thanks to Jan's trick we are still going quite well. Only 6.5knots now but there is almost no wind.
We will sail through the night trying to get to ijmuiden tomorrow in time to have a party with whatever dutch guy who wants to join us there (or belgium).
Looks like we will have to use the engine at a certain point in time, wind is dying on us.
This morning was exciting but not easy.
We left Tuxhaven with 25-28 knots of wind.
We had to motor for 3 hours against the wind trying to get out next to a very bussy shipping lane.
It was cold and way too early (5.00am).
Once out of the Elbe we got nice waves (3m) and good wind. The boat was doing great.
I was steering trying not to get sick. Jan took over around 10.00am and I went to bed for a couple of hours trying to sleep while the boat goes up and down 2m.
Got seasick again. Why the hell do I like boats, they allways make me sick.
Jan, Mario & Rupert were battling the wind we were still going a little upwind and had to tack.
We are tacking a full day know but its not completely against the wind, we just can't go parrallel with the cost so always have to tack to go back into the sea and loose it again.
I felt bad till 15.00h or so, wondering why I like boats.
Jan has a smile on his face for the full day already and is constantly tweaking the sails, I think he recognises linux in it, needs as much work to keep it going.
In the afternoon between 15.00h & 19.00h we didn't make that much progress.
In the morning we had an average of maybe 12 knots in the afternoon I don't want to know.
Know we are doing well thanks to Jan's trick.
Right now Rupert is coocking again, we always get lovely english specialties, .... )-:
It's quite funny though we bought all our food in denmark and now we have to figure out how to cook it.
Most of the things we want to cook need ingredients which we don't have or don't understand.
Anyhow we drunk some whisky cola's to forget our misery (-: and everything looks bright again.
Our ETA for Ijmuiden is now 18.00h tomorrow, hopefully we make it, we will just keep on going through the night taking shifts.
Regards
Rupert, Mario, Jan, Kristof
impossible but true
wind was dropping to 4-5 knots
we didn't make any progress any more
jan had a brilliant idea, why not use 3 sails in stead of 2
hmmm, weird idea and definately not designed todo so
we tried it anyhow
we mounted the code0 sail behind the jib, very weird construction
now comes the weirdest part, it works
we are doing 7.5 knots in virtually no wind, our estimate 4-5 knots of wind maximum.
we know have 155 m2 sail on the boat.
some fotos to demonstrate the weird setup:
we didn't make any progress any more
jan had a brilliant idea, why not use 3 sails in stead of 2
hmmm, weird idea and definately not designed todo so
we tried it anyhow
we mounted the code0 sail behind the jib, very weird construction
now comes the weirdest part, it works
we are doing 7.5 knots in virtually no wind, our estimate 4-5 knots of wind maximum.
we know have 155 m2 sail on the boat.
some fotos to demonstrate the weird setup:
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Trying to leave tuxhaven
team ready to start (Rupert takes foto)
we tried very hard to get into open sea was going really slow
there was about 20-25 knots of wind blowing straight at us
we waited for current to turn which it did but still then we only did 2-4 knots
You can see how slowly we pass a traffic scheme bouy
The autopilot is a fantastic piece of equipment, can drive the boat much better than a human can do.
Look at how it controls the rudder.
As read in previous post, the police caught us after 1.5 hours and we had to return to the marina.
The waves on the open sea are 3.5+ m.
Hoping that it will be better tomorrow.
police sends dragonfly back to marina
waves on sea 3.5+m
sideshore
which means side of trimaran goes 3.5 m up and down, surfing down the waves
was very hard to get to the sea anyhow because of serious wind
sideshore
which means side of trimaran goes 3.5 m up and down, surfing down the waves
was very hard to get to the sea anyhow because of serious wind
stuck in cuxhaven
Boat is prepared, we have water, food, petrol.
The current is against us we have to wait for the tides to turn.
We can leave around 17.00h.
Have to do 25 km's to reach full sea (we are at end of elbe now) and go out of the traffic zone.
We need to motor for that first piece because otherwise we have to tack in the traffic zone which is not ideal with all the big ships being here in that zone.
Going into the tide is not possible because than we have wind & tide against us, we would go backwards.
From 17.00h we can start.
We should be in middle of sea befor tide turns again us or we will have to return.
There is a lot of wind, going against it under engine will be hell.
Once we are on sea we can sail and we have wind halfway it should be lot better then.
We will sail through the night, wind should get less.
With some luck we enter Dutch territory somewhere this night.
It will be a bumpy ride during the night, not a lot of sleep will be possible I am afraid.
Hopefully tomorrow will be more calm.
The current is against us we have to wait for the tides to turn.
We can leave around 17.00h.
Have to do 25 km's to reach full sea (we are at end of elbe now) and go out of the traffic zone.
We need to motor for that first piece because otherwise we have to tack in the traffic zone which is not ideal with all the big ships being here in that zone.
Going into the tide is not possible because than we have wind & tide against us, we would go backwards.
From 17.00h we can start.
We should be in middle of sea befor tide turns again us or we will have to return.
There is a lot of wind, going against it under engine will be hell.
Once we are on sea we can sail and we have wind halfway it should be lot better then.
We will sail through the night, wind should get less.
With some luck we enter Dutch territory somewhere this night.
It will be a bumpy ride during the night, not a lot of sleep will be possible I am afraid.
Hopefully tomorrow will be more calm.
coming in yesterday evening in marina Cuxhaven
was really tough
there was 5 knots of current and 20 knots of wind against the tide.
In those conditions Dragonfly speed in water is maybe 5-7 knots under engine.
The current was parallel with with the entrance of the harbour.
We had to drift her in, meaing go full steam against the current, wind in the back.
Wait for the right moment and full speed go into the harber, quickly put engine in reverse and break.
Was REALLY scarry but we made it with no damage.
It is like a plane landing with wind from wrong direction.
there was 5 knots of current and 20 knots of wind against the tide.
In those conditions Dragonfly speed in water is maybe 5-7 knots under engine.
The current was parallel with with the entrance of the harbour.
We had to drift her in, meaing go full steam against the current, wind in the back.
Wait for the right moment and full speed go into the harber, quickly put engine in reverse and break.
Was REALLY scarry but we made it with no damage.
It is like a plane landing with wind from wrong direction.
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