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San Diego that ain't...
Vendee Global Challenge 2006 Ocean Racing at it wildest. Looks hella fun!
Vendee Global Challenge 2006 Ocean Racing at it wildest. Looks hella fun!
That's an example of sailing the schedule
and not the weather. I'm not saying you cannot get caught in heavy weather when doing an offshore passage but the chances are in your favor if you pick your weather windows and try to sail around some of these systems. A prudent cruiser would have reefed the sails and battened the hatches prior to being in such weather instead of having that seemingly disorganized activity on deck with crewmen swinging from lines and being pulled by their harness. Fun to me is a beam reach with winds of 15-20 from the SE, waves 3-5, a temperature of 85 and a beer in my hand.
and not the weather. I'm not saying you cannot get caught in heavy weather when doing an offshore passage but the chances are in your favor if you pick your weather windows and try to sail around some of these systems. A prudent cruiser would have reefed the sails and battened the hatches prior to being in such weather instead of having that seemingly disorganized activity on deck with crewmen swinging from lines and being pulled by their harness. Fun to me is a beam reach with winds of 15-20 from the SE, waves 3-5, a temperature of 85 and a beer in my hand.
It’s a lot tougher then you think.
Benny, Is a schedule the same thing to you as a race? While racing you carry the sail as long as you can because if you reef too early you lost the race and of course if you don’t have the rig you don’t win so you don’t reef later then you need to. What part made you think the crew was disorganized? To me it looks like a skilled crew dealing with tough conditions. The film doesn’t convey the real look and feel of the conditions. I would imagine that right now you are on a level and firm platform called dry land but on a boat in a storm there is a certain amount of movement and just staying with the boat can be a problem sometimes. A film just doesn’t give you the level of noise and the sense of movement that you get on the boat. It’s a lot tougher then you think. All the best, Robert Gainer
Benny, Is a schedule the same thing to you as a race? While racing you carry the sail as long as you can because if you reef too early you lost the race and of course if you don’t have the rig you don’t win so you don’t reef later then you need to. What part made you think the crew was disorganized? To me it looks like a skilled crew dealing with tough conditions. The film doesn’t convey the real look and feel of the conditions. I would imagine that right now you are on a level and firm platform called dry land but on a boat in a storm there is a certain amount of movement and just staying with the boat can be a problem sometimes. A film just doesn’t give you the level of noise and the sense of movement that you get on the boat. It’s a lot tougher then you think. All the best, Robert Gainer
Day Sail
posh....pass the club sandwiches and wine......nothing but a casual daysail. What's really interesting is that while the video is dramatic, video and pictures significantly downplay the true conditions. These guys are world class sailors.
posh....pass the club sandwiches and wine......nothing but a casual daysail. What's really interesting is that while the video is dramatic, video and pictures significantly downplay the true conditions. These guys are world class sailors.
Doesn't look like San Diego to me
It looks rough, but not so rough that the helicopter the distance shots were taken from couldn't take it. The boat (boats? - is this a compiled video?) does seem to be beating into some large waves - perhaps 12-15'. A shot of the anemometer might have been informative. Spray doesn't seem to be coming off the waves much - it's being thrown up by the bow wave. This would appear to be around Beaufort scale 6 or 7; about 30 to 35 knots by my guess. Running downwind in 50 under bare poles (at 8 knots) is more fun than what these guys seem to be going through.
It looks rough, but not so rough that the helicopter the distance shots were taken from couldn't take it. The boat (boats? - is this a compiled video?) does seem to be beating into some large waves - perhaps 12-15'. A shot of the anemometer might have been informative. Spray doesn't seem to be coming off the waves much - it's being thrown up by the bow wave. This would appear to be around Beaufort scale 6 or 7; about 30 to 35 knots by my guess. Running downwind in 50 under bare poles (at 8 knots) is more fun than what these guys seem to be going through.
Chuck
Chuck, I think the photograph was taken onboard lSELKIRK SETTLER February 13, 1987, during a trip from Tampa Florida to Ghent Belgium. She is a 730 foot long ship with a cargo of phosphates. All the best, Robert Gainer
Chuck, I think the photograph was taken onboard lSELKIRK SETTLER February 13, 1987, during a trip from Tampa Florida to Ghent Belgium. She is a 730 foot long ship with a cargo of phosphates. All the best, Robert Gainer
When you want the hell scared out of you...
Go visit this website. I keep this one in my bookmarks.. Jim S/V Java
Go visit this website. I keep this one in my bookmarks.. Jim S/V Java
Jim, some of that looks familiar
Some of that looks familiar. I was once foolish enough to sail in 90 knots with waves larger then 45 feet. I think the waves were much larger but after they became higher then my mast it was imposable to say how much higher. I rolled my boat and lost the use of the SSB along with my headstay (storm jib was on it), tiller and engine and I was presumed lost during the storm. In fact my obituary was published in the newspapers and some very nice articles were published in boating magazines along the lines of no matter how well you planed a trip it was possible to be overwhelmed. They had to print retractions after I turned up. A book was written about that trip by one of the reporters that covered the event after I got back to the US. Its one of the few time that I wish I had a camera on my trips. All the best, Robert Gainer
Some of that looks familiar. I was once foolish enough to sail in 90 knots with waves larger then 45 feet. I think the waves were much larger but after they became higher then my mast it was imposable to say how much higher. I rolled my boat and lost the use of the SSB along with my headstay (storm jib was on it), tiller and engine and I was presumed lost during the storm. In fact my obituary was published in the newspapers and some very nice articles were published in boating magazines along the lines of no matter how well you planed a trip it was possible to be overwhelmed. They had to print retractions after I turned up. A book was written about that trip by one of the reporters that covered the event after I got back to the US. Its one of the few time that I wish I had a camera on my trips. All the best, Robert Gainer
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