L'Eau Commotion Westabout

An (other) attempt to sail non stop Westabout around the world

Vessel Name: L'Eau Commotion
Vessel Make/Model: Northshore 38
Hailing Port: Brisbane Australia
Crew: Bill Hatfield
25 February 2020 | Scarborough Marina, Brisbane
21 February 2020
21 February 2020 | 59 Miles To Go
20 February 2020 | 114 Miles East Of Australia
19 February 2020 | 220 Miles East Of Gold Coast Seaway
19 February 2020 | 262 Miles To Gold Coast Seaway
18 February 2020 | 304 Miles East Of Gold Coast Seaway
18 February 2020 | 328 Miles To Go
17 February 2020 | 423 Miles To Go
17 February 2020 | 423 Miles To Go
16 February 2020 | 505 Miles East Of The Gold Coast
15 February 2020 | 617 Miles To Go
14 February 2020 | 755 Miles To Go
13 February 2020 | 888 Miles To The Gold Coast
12 February 2020 | 1032 Miles To The Gold Coast
11 February 2020 | 580 Miles North Of The Waikato
11 February 2020 | 1167 Miles To Home
10 February 2020 | 1300 Miles To Home
10 February 2020 | 1309 Miles To The Gold Coast
09 February 2020 | 1460 Miles To The Gold Coast Seaway
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25 February 2020 | Scarborough Marina, Brisbane

Thank You

D Day Plus 4 7am Wednesday 26th February 2020

21 February 2020

A Definite Maybe ETA

Day 259 6am Saturday 22nd February 2020 (UTC +10 )

21 February 2020 | 59 Miles To Go

All Good

Day 258 6pm Friday 21st February 2020 ( UTC +10 )

20 February 2020 | 114 Miles East Of Australia

ETA Looking Likely

Day 258 6am Friday 21st February 2020

19 February 2020 | 220 Miles East Of Gold Coast Seaway

Amended ETA

Day 257 6am Thursday 20th February 2020

19 February 2020 | 262 Miles To Gold Coast Seaway

Amended ETA

Day 256 10:30pm Wednesday 19th February 2020 ( UTC+10 )

Away With The Wind

16 October 2017 | 805 Miles to St. Helena
6:00pm Monday 16 October 2017 ( UTC ) Well you could have guessed it. The forecast for yonks ahead and the actual wind this morning are going directly towards St. Helena and Ascension and my nominal crossing point at the Equator 20 degrees West so I just had to see if she would run straight downwind. A little ginning around as I worked out ways to rig the sails but all seems OK. The jib is poled out to Port and the asymmetrical has its sheet through a pulley right on the end of the boom which is as far out to Starboard as it can go without touching the shrouds. A little tweaking with the sheets to keep the sails full and away we go. Interestingly the autopilot seems to perform just that little bit better working through the wind vane and there is no need to alter course to stop the asymmetrical from back winding. PredictWind has a course tacking downwind with a true wind angle of 150 degrees either side of the wind direction but I find it is too difficult to travel this fine without gibing and being able to run d ead downwind means no frequent sail changes. Also the extra distance travelled equates to the loss of about a knot in speed. The great thing about this setup is that it is very comfortable and speedy with the yacht averaging over 7 knots in 15 knots of true wind. It will be interesting to see if I can keep this combination to the Equator which is about a fortnight away.
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