Curtis: If it is your intent merely to gain experience offshore, do not rigidly plan your course this far out in time. Even if you are planning to motor the entire way, I suggest you consider a course which allows you an easy sail, that is a run or a reach with the predicted wind for your return to shore. If you have an engine problem, you lessen the potential of having to tack in.
Without local knowledge, it is difficult to give advice on tidal flow. Seek local knowledge. Also, as you head offshore, pass close aboard navigational marks, and particularly the sea buoy, and observe what way the current is flowing. This will help give you a sense of flow direction and speed to compare with your predictions. Ed L. Briar Patch C&C 34 New Orleans, La. From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Curtis Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 3:12 PM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List Near-shore tide what to expect. "Need some Guidance" I will have a capable sailor with me But i will insist right up till point of peril to do it singled handed including the leg work and learning as with all these questions. my wind is most always out of the south so I will steam out with the out going tide under flat conditions I get 6 knots at 2500 rpm's with a clean bottom. I would hope to have the afternoon winds at my back. the southerly breezes are most always out of the south. if that's the case I will be on the way back in at the last of the turnaround of the tide. So my outgoing tide will just starting to go back out. That may allow me to put my boat right-into her birth. I nose into my birth and the outgoing tide is on my nose giving me steering. Thanks Curtis On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:52 PM, dwight veinot <dwight...@gmail.com<mailto:dwight...@gmail.com>> wrote: Curtis Count on taking more time...averaging about 6 in a C&C 30 may be wishful...are you steaming all the way or sailing...Hope your motor is reliable and strong...if you get your first big trip figured out that good before hand I would say you have a career ahead in sailing...will this be alone or with crew Dwight Veinot Alianna C&C 35 MKII Head of St. Margaret's Bay, NS On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Curtis <cpt.b...@gmail.com<mailto:cpt.b...@gmail.com>> wrote: So I'm as some of you know in the process of moving to the next step in my training. I'm in the planing stages of my first over-night near shore passage. I will leave early am: 4:00 with a full moon to help and head out to the "R 4" F1 R4s @ 32-05,901"N 080-35,099W this is the channel into Port Royal sound Beaufort SC. I intend to sail out with the tide its a 19 mile ride I figure 5.5 knots of speed? That will put me there at Day break or just after 3.45 hrs. Then run straight east for 5nm to 32-029'899N 080-29'988 W That will take a nother 90 min, Here, I will turn south to 32-03,997W 080-29'167W 1.92 miles = 34min Here i will turn back west to 32-03'984W 080-34'965w this 4.92 leg take .89 min Then I will turn North to will bring me the 4.92 nm back to to the "R 4" F1 R4s @ 32-05,901"N 080-35,099W the bell marker at the mouth of the channel. Then my hope will be to take the the Tide back in. So here is the question." If I do this near shore how much will the tide effect my timing in the course: I plugged in the 5.5 based off motor speed. All together time from the dock and back to the dock. 10.956 hours to cover 60.26nm How much time will the tide cost me off shore? I know a bought the tide in and out of the river. Just need help with the offshore expectation? Thanks again. let me know if you need more information. LT -- "Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world." - Nicholas Monsarrat _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com<mailto:CnC-List@cnc-list.com> _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com<mailto:CnC-List@cnc-list.com> -- "Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world." - Nicholas Monsarrat
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