SimonV's Journey to Australia

[sailingdog]

Not exactly the choice of names if you wanted a unique name for your boat. I would be that there's at least 1000 of them in the US alone....and probably a few more in Canada, England, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, etc.

Originally Posted by camaraderie

Mike...there are 30 coast guard documented Aria's with countless state registered ones. Hope you like company!

[denby]

Originally Posted by sailingdog

Not exactly the choice of names if you wanted a unique name for your boat. I would be that there's at least 1000 of them in the US alone....and probably a few more in Canada, England, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, etc.

Dog,

What's the name of your boat?

[Giulietta]

ARIA in Portuguese means:

"A-sailboat-that-is-very-slow-and-motors-most-of-the-time-aimlessly-with-an-old-fart-
inside-that-takes-photos-and-makes-photoshows-with-them-with-hippie-music-like-Earth-Wind-and-fire-
and-Joan-Baez-and-doesn't-bathe"...more or less.....loses a little in translation

[KeelHaulin]

Stats as of BF's last post:

Distance Traveled: 1697 NM (Daily Waypoints Entered into Chart Navigator)
Time: ~13 Days
Avg Dist/Day: 130 NM
Avg Speed: 5.45 KTS

Rhumb Line (APPX) Distance to reach The Marquesas: ~1360 NM

So considering that he has some light wind sailing to do and that he will sail along more of a due S course until he crosses the equator;
he's probably at about the half-way point. The end of next week will tell us if he will be in the 4 week range; but it might take him a bit longer depending on ICZ winds.
If he maintains his average (optimistic) he's ~10 days out via the rhumb line.

Of course Chart Navigator's base map is a Mercator Projection so my calc's could be all wrong...

[sailingdog]

Thanks for the update Keelhaulin.

[T34C]

Originally Posted by Giulietta

ARIA in Portuguese means:

"A-sailboat-that-is-very-slow-and-motors-most-of-the-time-aimlessly-with-an-old-fart-
inside-that-takes-photos-and-makes-photoshows-with-them-with-hippie-music-like-Earth-Wind-
and-fire-and-Joan-Baez-and-doesn't-bathe"...more or less.....loses a little in translation

Thats funny, it means the same thing in english!
(I'm now ducking and running for cover!)

[eMKay]

Gee, who would have though the Italian word for "Air" would be a popular boat name

[jrd22]

Thanks for the position update. Anyone that's been there done that- how long does it normally take to get across the equator back into some wind generally?

John

[bestfriend]

The winds yesterday Friday 15 may were so light I decided to fly the asymmetrical spinnaker and it was great until about 6pm, when there was a wind shift with some force and a choppy swell. The Spinnaker went inside out and wrapped itself around the headsail furler about half way up and proceeded to spin tighter all the way to the top even enveloping the sock. One hour latter needing the break I tried to make the regular radio call with Greg and Melissa on Pura Vida, no luck Propagation is bad at the moment even email has to be sent at the higher frequencies. Time to think and listen to the radio. If I can't get it down I can't use the headsail, me thinks to self, but I do have a staysail so all is not lost; just a bit slower and if I get the guts I will fly the symmetrical spinnaker if needed. So Up to the for deck to set up the inner fore stay just as I tighten the high field lever the spinnaker takes a flap as I hadn't got around to lashing it down, and the inner fore stay acts as a peeler and as I rotate the furler by hand it peels the spinnaker off the furler. Once down on deck I stuff the lot into its bag and there it will stay..until the next time I decide to fly it. Moral of the story, don't always do things in the order they should be done, you might get a nice surprise.

POS 07,28N 130,09W Sunny hot,dam hot water temp 28C light wind

Simon

[sailingdog]

Thanks BF... but where's the globe with the position on it??? You're slacking.