Harry Heijst
Saturday 22-25 July Winsome’s delivery to Cherbourg and our stay in Le Cotentin.
Our stay in Cherbourg did us very good. We stayed at Sophie’s farm in Morsalines which is at 30 minutes from Cherbourg. We started with a good sleep and we went back to Winsome to let everything dry. It was hard to decide what to do with food bought, based upon a calculation 8 (crew) […]
Post by Harry Heijst | July 26, 2023 | Comments Off on Saturday 22-25 July Winsome’s delivery to Cherbourg and our stay in Le Cotentin. | Comments RSS
Start and first day on the water
We continued to prepare the boat and ourselves for the race. In the meantime RORC announced that the race, scheduled for Saturday, would not be postponed irrespective of the wind predictions. We started at 13:30 UTC with 23 knots of wind after having hoisted G-4 with one reef in the main sail. We had to […]
Post by Harry Heijst | July 22, 2023 | 1 Comment | Comments RSS
Friday 21st July 2023
Another day of preparation. Richard arrived whilst Leen was still on his way. We tried to calibrate the compass, but in spite of 5 turns of 360 degrees on the Solent we did not succeed. We hoisted the main and the S1-L which was looking ok. That the Sevenstar logo was not in it, we […]
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