Hi Milt, I am following your adventure/challenge with interest and hoping you will get safe and calm seas all the way to Horta. I didn't realize that you where going to cross with only other two boats! I have heard about Christine Bauman of Moana Kuewa from Peter Sheppard when we met through some 'heated' exchanges on PUP and he told me that a lady skipper was about to cross the Atlantic on your group and I got very interested on meeting her (or at least exchange emails with her) and I guess now I will be able to do it when you guys arrive in Gibraltar. I was/am VERY impressed that she had taken such a responsibility. Please tell her that I wish her all the best on her challenge, as I do to all of you too. Keep well, safe and dry! Kisses to Judy! Sonaia Hermida On 6/15/07, Georgs Kolesnikovs <waterworld@rogers.com> wrote: > > Noon Report June 14, 2007 > > Position 32-53.16 N 61-46-16 W as of 12:00 EDT Thursday, June 14, 2007 > Course 095 deg M > Speed 6.2 kts @ 1700 RPM > 1,652 NM to go to Horta, Faial, Azores > Distance made good since departure: 164 NM (average 6.3 kts) > Total fuel consumed 82 gals, average 3.0 GPH, fuel remaining 1398 gal > Conditions: Wind 170 deg M @ 13 kts. swells 3-4 ft, mostly overcast, > visibility excellent. > Barometer 1017.0 mb rising slowly. > Sea water temp 74 deg F, air temp 74 deg F. > ETA Horta: May 25-26, 2007 > > Med Bound 2007's visit to Bermuda is history, and all Med Bound > yachts are back at sea, all of us much the better for the experience > thanks to Bermuda's legendary hospitality. > > In Bermuda we discovered two boat problems: a leaking stabilizer > actuator and a broken icemaker fitting. Vic Kuzmovick, head of Naiad > Florida, quickly dispatched a service technician to Bermuda to > replace the leaking actuator. Tech David D'Orazio arrived Friday > afternoon with tools and parts in hand and went to work immediately. > We tested everything in the morning and he left in time to catch a > noon flight out of Bermuda. The entire fix was taken care of under > warranty! What a terrific company Naiad is to deal with. I can say > from long experience that Vic Kuzmovich and Naiad set a very high > standard for customer service! Our icemaker issue, a broken Sub-Zero > part, was not so easily fixed, nor was it of such importance. We > still have ice, but must manually turn the icemaker on and off--not a > big deal. We'll replace the broken part when we get to it! > > Back to the real news: N62 Grey Pearl and N47 Imagine departed Royal > Bermuda Yacht Club Monday, Pearl bound for Annapolis and Imagine for > Newport. Both needed to get moving , and weather router Bob Jones > called the conditions they'd face difficult but not dangerous, > something their reports bear out. Until today Imagine reported a > pleasant trip with moderate winds and seas, but today's report had > her approaching the Gulf Stream off Newport with 9-12 foot head seas > and 25-30 knot headwinds-nasty stuff, indeed. Grey Pearl reports the > she has had a rough ride all the way, her speed reduced to less than > eight knots by headwinds and head seas. Both yachts have experienced > crew onboard and are prepared to tough it out. > > N47 Summer Skis, N62 New Frontier and N40 Beso, bound for Newport, > departed RBYC at 10 am yesterday, minutes ahead of Horta-bound group, > Bluewater, N55 Salty Dawg and N44 Moana Kuewa. We had taken a cab to > check out at St. Georges, a painless process. This morning Skipper > Jim Fuller sent this report from Summer Skis: > > "The Newport Gang has survived it's first of 4 nights at sea. We > started off in some substantial seas and wind from the west at 15-20. > As the night progressed it abated somewhat, and we are now pretty > comfortable. Seas still on the beam but less than yesterday. We have > 511 miles to go and the crew of all the boats seem to be holding off > any mutiny plans at the current moment. Joey's line did catch a > fish. Jer reeled it in because Joey was asleep. It was a mahi mahi of > the huge size of 12". The crew of New Frontier took pity on it and > sent it back to its mother. So I guess we have to give Joey the > benefit of the doubt and give him his fish." > > This is taken from my rough log written yesterday: > > "0730 Impromptu meeting at the YC to discuss Bob's latest. Joint > decision made to go. Off to St. Georges by cab with driver Cornell > to clear out. Outbound clearance is quick and mostly painless, once > a few bureaucratic T's are crossed and I's are dotted. I spy the > sailing yacht Frog Kiss at the dock and introduce myself to the son > of Patrick Mouligne, who is juts checking in after completing Leg 1 > of the Bermuda 1-2 Race-singlehanded and ahead of his father's > Nordhavn 46 as he pointed out. > > "1005 Underway from RBYC. We are sent off by Commodore Andy Cox and > ace Dockmaster/Marina Manager James Barnes. Newport-bound group off > the docks first. Moana Kuewa last off the docks, with Christine > Bauman running hard at the last minute to buy Euros then get her > yacht club bill paid. We did circles in the harbor waiting for Moana > Kuewa, then called Bermuda Harbor Radio, and received clearance to > depart. Local Nordhavn fans Donald and Mavis Cave are our escort > vessel in their Mainship, accompanying us nearly to the Spit Buoy off > St. Georges. > > "We proceed out the South Channel, following about a mile astern of > the Newport-bound yachts. Much chatter on the radio back and forth. > > "By agreement with Salty Dawg and Moana Kuewa, the Horta-bound group > is running at about 6.3 knots. For Bluewater that's 1700 RPMs, > several hundred RPMs below our usual speed but a good speed for > conserving fuel on this, the longest non-stop run we've undertaken in > this boat. Having enough fuel for this 1,818-mile run is something > we need to pay close attention to. We notice that the boat is quiet > and the engine room running much cooler at these low RPMs and with no > generator on line. > > "About three hours out from RBYC as we're leaving Bermuda waters we > receive a VHF radio call from Patrick Mouligne aboard Frog Kiss II. > Patrick wishes Med Bound well, reporting his trip was excellent and > that he already likes his "new" Nordhavn 46 a great deal. His is > what I call "the First Lady of Nordhavn," the very first Nordhavn > yacht ever built. > > "By late afternoon, the morning overcast gives way to sunny skies. > Winds are on the starboard quarter at 6-8 knots and seas are 2-4. > Water temp is 75 degrees and air temp about the same. The boat is > open, the fishing line trails in our wake, and it couldn't be nicer. > No fish" > > Today dawned overcast with light rain, but the winds and seas were > still down, giving us a comfortable ride. We saw just a couple of > ships overnight; this run is mostly out of the shipping lanes so we > expect to see few ships along the way. All three yachts on this leg > have two-way AIS units, so it's very easy to keep track of one > another. We're running in the same kind of loose inverted-V > formation we used on the way to Bermuda, but with three yachts it's > much easier. Bluewater is at the top of the V with Salty Dawg a mile > back to port and Moana Kuewa a mile back to starboard-close enough to > keep an eye on one another day and night yet far enough away to pose > no danger. > > Aboard Bluewater we use three-hour watches, starting at 2100 or 9 pm. > I take the first watch, Judy relieves me at midnight, and George > relieves her at 0300. I'm back on watch at 0600, fresh from nearly > six hours of sleep, then Judy is back at 0900. From 1200 to 2100, no > one "officially" has the watch-it falls to whomever is available. > Judy does all the meals, so George and I usually split off the > daytime watches informally. With only three yachts, rolls calls are > quick and easy; we're doing them at 0900 and 2100. We do a full > power run about 1145 each day to run up the engines to full RPMs, > blow out the carbon, and check the fuel filter vacuum gauges-Lugger > Bob Senter pointed out in a seminar that the vacuum gauge readings > are valid only at full power. I like to think that a short full > power run will help identify problems well because they become > serious; I hope I'm right! > > Many yachts measure fuel consumption precisely using an expensive > device called a FloScan. The FloScan is so accurate, to quote Dennis > Bruckel on Salty Dawg, it shows a burn rate of a tenth of a gallon or > two (per hour) more going up a swell than down a swell! Both Salty > Dawg and Moana Kuewa have FloScans, and both skippers have high > confidence in their accuracy. Alas, Bluewater does not have one so > we do our fuel measurement the old fashioned way-by looking at sight > gauges, estimating, and using a table created for our boat using an > Excel spreadsheet. This morning I used the Nordhavn 47's elegant > fuel system to measure our actual fuel consumption at 1700 RPMs with > no generator running. It came to 3.0 gallons per hour, and I should > hasten to add that's approximate at best: watching the fuel level > using a sight gauge on a rolling boat is never going to be precise! > Still, 3 GPH is consistent with our past experience and what our > engine manufacturer, Lugger, calls for running at 1700 RPMs. > > If we look at our 1,818-mile passage from Bermuda to Horta and divide > by a speed of advance (SOA) of 6.3 knots, Bluewater should be > underway on this passage for about 290 hours or 12 days. Multiply > that by 3 gallons per hour and we SHOULD use less than 900 of our > 1480 gallons. Ah, but that does not include the possibility of more > hours for a weather divserion or for heavy headwinds and head seas > (let's add, say, another 20% ) which could take us up to main engine > fuel consumption of 1,044 gallons. Then add in some generator time, > for openers let's say an average of 2 hours per day at one GPH, for a > generator burn of 26 gallons. It all comes to an admittedly soft > fuel burn estimate of 1,070 gallons, leaving a reserve of 410 > gallons-roughly 28%. I hope it works out that way! In fact, we'll > watch it day by day. If we reach the halfway point with what we > expect, perhaps we can ratchet up the speed and generator time a bit > and arrive with less. One more consideration: we need to take on at > least 1,325 gallons (350 liters) in Horta to qualify for duty free > fuel pricing. > > As I finish this up at 1400, I note that the wind has come around to > SSE and our boat speed at 1700 RPMs is down to 5.6 to 5.7 knots-it > may just be a longer trip than we think! > > --Milt, Judy, George and Schipperke Katy > -- > Milt Baker > Bluewater > Nordhavn 47 #32 > http://www.bluewaternav.com > > A compilation of reports from Med Bound 2007 may be viewed at > <http://www.nordhavn.com>. 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