This week we did a little training run with BT and Safran. We set off on Wednesday morning with BT from Port La Foret, reaching towards Quiberon - a good speed test in 15 knots of wind. Then, at Quiberon we rolled genoas and waited for Safran. Then once the three boats were together we headed offshore in the building North Easterly breeze - under spinnaker. It was a fun leg sailing into the dusk! At night-fall we got "buzzed" by the 24F search and rescue Falcon from Lann-bihoue! We all had a chat and they did a couple of fly-bys!
Then we dropped spinnakers - a good exercise in 30 knots of wind - and headed upwind towards Ushant. It was a tough night with 25-30 knots of wind, but great training.
As dawn broke we turned around and "hooned" back towards Penmarch, blast reaching with BT only a few boat-lengths away from us! We struggle for boatspeed in these reaching conditions, and so we have our work cut-out for the next few weeks to try to make Artemis perform better. We are in the best place for that though, as the official squad training begins next week in Port La Foret!
So, now I hurt all over (Artemis is a lot harder to sail (physically) than Roxy) and Sidney and I are working on the debriefing from the 36 hours!
Better go - I'm off to Vannes today to visit the photo exhibitions!
S x
Then we dropped spinnakers - a good exercise in 30 knots of wind - and headed upwind towards Ushant. It was a tough night with 25-30 knots of wind, but great training.
As dawn broke we turned around and "hooned" back towards Penmarch, blast reaching with BT only a few boat-lengths away from us! We struggle for boatspeed in these reaching conditions, and so we have our work cut-out for the next few weeks to try to make Artemis perform better. We are in the best place for that though, as the official squad training begins next week in Port La Foret!
So, now I hurt all over (Artemis is a lot harder to sail (physically) than Roxy) and Sidney and I are working on the debriefing from the 36 hours!
Better go - I'm off to Vannes today to visit the photo exhibitions!
S x
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