In my years of racing and sailing small sailboats all I needed were a bowline, square and what ever kind of knot I could improvise.
I stood watches as I was helping a friend move his boat to San Francisco from San Diego. Notable was transiting the passage between Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz islands at near midnight in the fog with the help of the radar. I also remember standing watch and thinking at the start of the watch that I could see where the boat would be at the end of 3 hours. I think we were making about 1 knot over the ground. The boat was bucking a head sea and the current.
A bit farther to sea in the winter months, a sailor can take advantage of the Davidson Current, which runs counter to the CCW N Pacific flow. It's pretty strong and is sometimes helped by a prevailing breeze from the south on a northward journey. My two-cents. Vr m
After we parked at Coho and the sea and current calmed so we could motor around the point of storms, point Conception. From there it was a pleasure motoringl. At Monterey the wind shifted and we motor sailed the rest of the way. We parked the boat at Glen Cove in the Carquinez Strait. My friend had only one eye so I helmed the boat into the slip. The tide was running out so I had to steer about 20 degs up stream to keep boat pointed at the harbor.
Clifford Ashley's 1956 classic, 'Ashley's Book on Knots.' 7900 hand-drawings of some 3600 knots. It isn't a "have book, will travel" tome...weighing in at few pounds, but each hand-sketch is a piece of standalone art. Good for us non-sail sailors.
Fun to read, do keep writing. Thanks also for the earlier link to Predictwind - seems impressive. As a former Nav, am curious if your team have a backup paper chart or similar. Anyway, fair winds and following seas!
Now you know the true meaning of fair winds & following seas!
Prokhodij vdol' mysa gatterasa! Tak korosho. Bjt' zdarov!
In my years of racing and sailing small sailboats all I needed were a bowline, square and what ever kind of knot I could improvise.
I stood watches as I was helping a friend move his boat to San Francisco from San Diego. Notable was transiting the passage between Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz islands at near midnight in the fog with the help of the radar. I also remember standing watch and thinking at the start of the watch that I could see where the boat would be at the end of 3 hours. I think we were making about 1 knot over the ground. The boat was bucking a head sea and the current.
A bit farther to sea in the winter months, a sailor can take advantage of the Davidson Current, which runs counter to the CCW N Pacific flow. It's pretty strong and is sometimes helped by a prevailing breeze from the south on a northward journey. My two-cents. Vr m
After we parked at Coho and the sea and current calmed so we could motor around the point of storms, point Conception. From there it was a pleasure motoringl. At Monterey the wind shifted and we motor sailed the rest of the way. We parked the boat at Glen Cove in the Carquinez Strait. My friend had only one eye so I helmed the boat into the slip. The tide was running out so I had to steer about 20 degs up stream to keep boat pointed at the harbor.
Clifford Ashley's 1956 classic, 'Ashley's Book on Knots.' 7900 hand-drawings of some 3600 knots. It isn't a "have book, will travel" tome...weighing in at few pounds, but each hand-sketch is a piece of standalone art. Good for us non-sail sailors.
Fun to read, do keep writing. Thanks also for the earlier link to Predictwind - seems impressive. As a former Nav, am curious if your team have a backup paper chart or similar. Anyway, fair winds and following seas!