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Last Updated:
0800 EST / 8-23-09
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Charleston, SC -
Norfolk, VA '09 -
June 7-11, 2009 |
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Date/Route/Crew/Time |
Position |
6-7-09
Charleston, SC - Norfolk, VA
Crew: Gregg, Jen, Quinn
0945 - underway |
32°47.317'N, 79°55.448'W |
| 1500 |
32°51.6'N,
79°25.1'W |
| 2130 |
33°08.4'N,
78°48.9'W |
| 0310/6-8-09 |
33°20.391'N,
78°17.051'W |
| 0900 |
33°34.1'N,
77°40.1'W |
| 1500 |
33°56.447'N,
77°04.585'W |
| 2200 |
34°20.051'N,
76°25.656'W |
| 0320/6-9-09 |
34°37.272'N,
75°57.045'W |
| 0900 |
34°58.620'N,
75°21.898'W |
| 1555 |
35°32.029'N,
75°15.991'W |
| 2105 |
36°00.041'N,
75°23.511'W |
| 0345/6-10-09 |
36°28.7'N,
75°35.1'W |
| 0800 |
36°49.608'N,
75°49.273'W |
| 1430 (docked @
Waterside Marina, Norfolk, VA) |
36°50.628'N,
76°17.548'W |
| Total Time: 3
days 4 hours 45 minutes, Total Distance: approx 427.3 nm |
6-11-09:
Glad to be north of Cape Hatteras, we made it into Norfolk
around 2 pm yesterday. The trip started off badly with an
equipment problem. Francois, the auto pilot, was not working...
at all. Thinking we were going to have to manually helm for over
3 days, we started calling marinas in Southport, NC.
Fortunately, if only temporarily, Francois kicked back in and we
pressed on. We ran into a bit of rough weather after rounding
Cape Hatteras, at which time Francois went back on strike - made
for a very long night. But for the most part, the North Atlantic
treated us kindly.
It was feast or famine the entire trip. We either
had about 7 or less knots of wind or up to 33 knots (during the
squall) on the nose. The forecast said there was supposed to be
10-15 knots from the S-SW for about the last 24 hours of our
passage, so we thought we might get some sailing in. As it
turned out, we did some very minimal motor-sailing and mostly
just motored with the sails furled because there either was not
enough wind to keep them filled or too much from the wrong
direction. |
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