Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Night Sailing and day run under A 2.5

The Westerly track represents the night sail, winds were NE at 8 knots, sea calm.  We got a good view of Venus and Jupiter.  A cat had joined us in a clandestine way, he showed up after one hour.  The outbound beat was at 40 degrees apparent wind angle, then a 180 and the wind angle was the same, we were not able to hoist spinnaker due to the very small apparent wind angle, the boat speed being more then the wind.

The Easterly track represents the day sail of 13 May,  winds were 330 at 12 knots.  The A2.5 hoist made for 11 knots speed down wind.

This made for a fantastic night sail and great day training.

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