This year our vacation sailing lasted two weeks and the west-most location was west harbour in Maarianhamina. The most memorable moment was at Kihti in 10 m/s fresh wind when we logged 7,2 knots! For our 63 years old 9 ton ocean going yacht it was very well done!
Johanna entered her home harbour on saturday 1st of august. Cruising from the yard went without problems at 5 knots. Just before entering her own place in the harbour I noticed that the gears had vanished. Only forward….. Luckily it was “just” a loose gear cable.
Skylight is installed and sailing setup starts to be ready. Nexus server needs to be installed. It collects speed, depth, wind and gps info and sends it to displays. You can even connect a PC to it so you can have virtual instruments on PC display and log all the data. It is almost a must-to-have for the first real sail so all the data is collected for documenting purposes.
In WB-Sails document was mentioned Ted Brewer’s Comfor Ratio. It has been accepted as a reasonable way to compare different type of yachts. Here is a short description at Ted Brewer’s website of it:
“The CR is : Displacement in pounds/ (.65 x (.7 LWL + .3 LOA) x B1.333). Ratios will vary from 5.0 for a light daysailer to the high 60s for a super heavy vessel, such as a Colin Archer ketch. Moderate and successful ocean cruisers, such as the Valiant 40 and Whitby 42, will fall into the low-middle 30s range.”
I calculated this comfort ratio for Johanna and got 50 as a result. This tells what also I have found out without any formulas. Comfortable, also in bad weather.
