This Thursday night was held the first Sir Ab Nur Moon Race, IdeesfixVIII and Pindar participated. Here are a few pictures:
The Quantum main has a very nice shape, it gave us a good speed. The moon was very bright but does not appear on the pictures.
Helming at night arround Sir Ab Nur.
A few lights from Sir Ab Nur taken from the NE.
The track of IdeesfixVIII was downloaded from Quatix. The battery died out, leaving the track unfinished. We started Thurday night 21 January 2016 at 18:30:00 and arrived Friday at 10:42:05, giving us an elapsed time of 16:12:05.
At the start the wind 330/08 led to a Starboard start followed by a port tack to clear Marina Mall. We stayed on Port for a long time until abeam Sir Ab Nur. We kept being lifted but then tacked to Starboard needing an extra tack to clear Esan and Wsan. Rounding Wsan at 02:45, the A3.1Q went up, giving us a great spinnaker run, reaching 14Kts. There is an island to keep clear of, watching out was important. Early morning the wind died so we had breakfast consisting of potato salad with onions and garlic. At about 08:00 a SW breeze came up, after hoisting the J1.1Q we beated up to Emirates Palace Marina, crossing the finish at 10:42:05. It was a great sail having moon light during the whole night. The weather was perfect with a much better breeze form NW then forecast. Beside a few fishing boats there was very little traffic and nothing special to note. The course was just above a 100Nm sailed in 16:12:05 giving an average speed of about 6.2Kts in direct line. The course is excellent and offers no difficulties.
At the start the wind 330/08 led to a Starboard start followed by a port tack to clear Marina Mall. We stayed on Port for a long time until abeam Sir Ab Nur. We kept being lifted but then tacked to Starboard needing an extra tack to clear Esan and Wsan. Rounding Wsan at 02:45, the A3.1Q went up, giving us a great spinnaker run, reaching 14Kts. There is an island to keep clear of, watching out was important. Early morning the wind died so we had breakfast consisting of potato salad with onions and garlic. At about 08:00 a SW breeze came up, after hoisting the J1.1Q we beated up to Emirates Palace Marina, crossing the finish at 10:42:05. It was a great sail having moon light during the whole night. The weather was perfect with a much better breeze form NW then forecast. Beside a few fishing boats there was very little traffic and nothing special to note. The course was just above a 100Nm sailed in 16:12:05 giving an average speed of about 6.2Kts in direct line. The course is excellent and offers no difficulties.
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