Cape Mendicino
We made it south of Cape Mendicino, yeah! We passed our waypoint at 09:00 this morning in 15 knots of northerly winds and 3 meter seas. We had planed all along to e at 126W but the offshore forecast was for stronger winds offshore so we altered course to be 20 NM off. A good choice. The weather has been awesome the past day with sunshine during the day and a perfect starscape at night. The wind steering continues to give us grief but we are not too worried. The autopilot has picked up most of the slack but does not like surfing down 3 meter seas. We have been hand steering since about 01:00 this morning. The boat is running really well under poled out headsail and mizzen. Overnight we reefed in the mizzen and headsail and still maintained better than 5 knots. He sail combination seems to be ideal for downwind. We are running the sails wing on wing. We will likely be in Drakes bay tomorrow evening and will decide when to go into San Francisco after that.
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posted by Brian Ackles - S/V Cygnet at
12:25
1 Comments:
Hi guys
really enjoying reading of your experiences. Aren't the dolphin trails magnificient. It must have been magical having them with you for that length of time. We are using YOTREPS voyager programme to follow your progress even more closely which is great. Hopefully you will be able to sort the wind steering out in San Francisco. Have a safe landfall in San Francisco. I'm sure it will be exciting accompanied by a deserved sense of satisfaction
Cheers for now
Foxy Crew
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