Re: Ballooner
Danny and Yvonne SIMMS
Hi again Pat, just an extension to my previous to emphasize to value of following the wind. On one voyage from New Zealand to Fiji, around 1200 miles we set off in wind just aft of the beam. We set big headsail, main, mizzen and mizzen staysail and put the auto helm on wind steer. The wind varied to port around 20 degrees and the auto helm followed, about 24 hours later it varied 20 degrees back to starboard for about 24 hours and so it was all the way. We never adjusted sheets the whole way. wind varied from 8 to 20 knots and we averaged 200 miles a day. Now that I call a dream run. But the dream came from going with the wind rather than holding the rhumb line. If we had followed the rhumb line we would have been adjusting and changing sails all the way. Cheers Danny SM 299 Ocean pearl
On 24 March 2019 at 06:52 Danny and Yvonne SIMMS <simms@...> wrote:
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