Archive for January, 2010
Tallship gale – ocean sailing
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Tallship Soren Larsen ocean sailing in a gale between Easter Island and Pitcairn, making 9 knots in great ocean sailing conditions. Filmed by Poul Sodeman. See www.sorenlarsen.co.nz for more info.
Heavy weather sailing skills
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Sailing in 35 to 45 knots under storm jib and Tri Sail, squally but relatively comfortable. Still doing 6-7 knots boat speed through the water, with 45-50 degrees course over ground achieved when traveling above six knots. A good choice of sails to achieve the desired destination at noon. On other occassions when the wind is constantly over 50 knots the storm jib is lowered and the vessel sailed with a course over the ground of about 70-80 degrees off the wind. Without the aid of an engine a …
Extreme Catamaran Sailing (Stars & Stripes) Just another day…
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Just another day on the fjord crusing with 15 knots in less than 2 bf. wind
high speed catamaran sailing
Posted by: | CommentsTodays new video from Aeroyacht:
an Outremer 45 catamaran sailing at 22 knots in the Gulf of Lion, France
