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
Recent Blog Posts
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 )

Map Position

10 July 2019 | 550 Miles West ofKalbarri, West Australia
Day 33 10pm Wednesday 10th July 2019
Thanks to Glenda of Sailblogs Admin the position of L'Eau Commotion should now appear on a map on the Sailblogs site as well as on Windy Tracker. The BiSymmetric* has now been up for over a day now and is living up to its high expectations. To reduce slapping when the wind drops below six or eight knots I put one reef in the main last night but otherwise there has been no sail change. It seems to operate best with the true wind just ten or twenty degrees to Port of dead astern and whenever the puffs get over ten or twelve knots it takes off with an effortless 8 to 10 knots on the GPS or water speed read out, though with the often light airs the average speed has been just 6.4 knots over the last day of 22h 18 m. When the wind drops a little and the boat speed is down to say 4 knots there is no apparent wind at deck level so the yacht has been constantly on autopilot. The Watt & Sea hydrogenerator is keeping up the batteries admirably with this load as well as all instruments and whatever lights are being used. I will try the Windpilot once the breeze settles down and to this end I intend to change tack tomorrow to head further North as the forecast wind goes more to the East and increases slightly.
*BiSymmetric - A combination word to describe the combination of two Asymmetric sails on the one flexible furler first ascribed to William Hatfield ( 1939 - )
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