Harry Heijst
At 1300 UTC day 6 in the Sevenstar Round Birtain & Ireland Race started.
Hello today, Our last 24 hours delivered us 147 Nm bringing the total to 737. In other words about 40% of the total distance. We have nearly constantly enjoyed wind speeds of 16 to 18 knots. We sailed partially with Genoa II (in which Reima also had to repair a hole being he result of […]
Post by Harry Heijst | August 28, 2010 | 3 Comments | Comments RSS
Winsome started day 5 on Friday 27 August in Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race 2010
Dear readers, supporters and friends. Last night was a cool or even cold one with windspeed limited upto 11 to 14 knots. Fortunately we have been able to steer away from the wind-hole West of our rhumb-line avoiding that the distances with Beluga of 46 Nm last night and Selena of 60 Nm were not […]
Post by Harry Heijst | August 27, 2010 | 2 Comments | Comments RSS
day 4 in the race
After our last “painfull night” some of our frustrations faded away this morning. The wind came up and as from early this morning we are sailing with one of our competitors “Change of Course” in sight. 10-12 knots of wind are giving us a boatspeed of about 5 knots. Not great but it is 5 […]
Post by Harry Heijst | August 26, 2010 | 1 Comment | Comments RSS
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