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Congrats to all the finishers so far! It was super fun to "armchair" watch the race from home... starting to dream about taking this on myself someday!
AKUMU Report 7/4-5
Friday July 4
Happy Independence Day
Lots of flying fish on board this morning, several tiny ones and a couple 4 inches.
Batteries are back down to 20% lots of cloud cover yesterday and looks like today too .
That swell is out of the south east and the north east and it all comes together, piles up and makes a big nasty hole in the water. Challenging to drive. The auto pilot doesn’t like it and I get tired after a few hours back on the helm. Got to get our way through this and on to Hannalei
Set first reef and have the number two poled out.
Saturday July 5
Batteries down to 9% this morning .
Shut everything down except for the AIS and hand steered until 9 o’clock this evening. Batteries are back up to 31%.
I think the heavy sea state is causing the auto pilot to use more energy and I hadn’t accounted for that plus the additional cloud cover.
Running with full main and number 2.
I don’t think I could carry a kite in this, I’m already stuffing the bow into the waves ahead of us.
Hand steered from nine this morning until nine this evening. Hove to a couple times to take a break and get some snacks.
I’ve seen lots of flying fish today actually over the last couple of days tons of little ones and quite a few big ones a foot long or so, they have reddish wings and backs.
Put a reef in the main for the evening, I think it balances the boat better for the autopilot.
Trader Joe’s, Tika vegetables, and rice for dinner.
Friday July 4
Happy Independence Day
Lots of flying fish on board this morning, several tiny ones and a couple 4 inches.
Batteries are back down to 20% lots of cloud cover yesterday and looks like today too .
That swell is out of the south east and the north east and it all comes together, piles up and makes a big nasty hole in the water. Challenging to drive. The auto pilot doesn’t like it and I get tired after a few hours back on the helm. Got to get our way through this and on to Hannalei
Set first reef and have the number two poled out.
Saturday July 5
Batteries down to 9% this morning .
Shut everything down except for the AIS and hand steered until 9 o’clock this evening. Batteries are back up to 31%.
I think the heavy sea state is causing the auto pilot to use more energy and I hadn’t accounted for that plus the additional cloud cover.
Running with full main and number 2.
I don’t think I could carry a kite in this, I’m already stuffing the bow into the waves ahead of us.
Hand steered from nine this morning until nine this evening. Hove to a couple times to take a break and get some snacks.
I’ve seen lots of flying fish today actually over the last couple of days tons of little ones and quite a few big ones a foot long or so, they have reddish wings and backs.
Put a reef in the main for the evening, I think it balances the boat better for the autopilot.
Trader Joe’s, Tika vegetables, and rice for dinner.
catching up a bit here -
FUGU Finished at 19:56:02 July 06
Before he finished Chris shared these photo's and this message with an account of his broken boom
(editorial sidebar - the emotions here are completely understandable - this kind of thing does have a tendancy to put you off your food for a bit - also noting that Chris rallied admirably, and finished with a quite repectable average of 5.7kn with jib alone after bending the boom)
I am questioning all aspects of my sailing, am I unprepared? Inexperienced? Push to edge to much, taking risks I shouldn't?
All yesterday late afternoon and AII night I was doing most of the driving, because the autopilot was acting up, plus squall after squall was rolling through! It started with 15 knots between squalls blowing 22-23 knots and at the end of the night 22 was the standard and 28 was the squalls!!
So I got the jib down and secured the the AP lost control, a jibe happened and the boom bent!
FUGU Finished at 19:56:02 July 06
Before he finished Chris shared these photo's and this message with an account of his broken boom
(editorial sidebar - the emotions here are completely understandable - this kind of thing does have a tendancy to put you off your food for a bit - also noting that Chris rallied admirably, and finished with a quite repectable average of 5.7kn with jib alone after bending the boom)
I am questioning all aspects of my sailing, am I unprepared? Inexperienced? Push to edge to much, taking risks I shouldn't?
All yesterday late afternoon and AII night I was doing most of the driving, because the autopilot was acting up, plus squall after squall was rolling through! It started with 15 knots between squalls blowing 22-23 knots and at the end of the night 22 was the standard and 28 was the squalls!!
So I got the jib down and secured the the AP lost control, a jibe happened and the boom bent!
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