Entry Date: 27.05.2025, at 10:30:00 hrs (UTC)
Azores - Ireland
From the Azores to Ireland
| PRID: | 13166 |
|---|---|
| LegID: | 362 |
| LegNo: | 106 |
| Latitude: | N051°41.70' |
| Longitude: | W008°31.30' |
| Day#: | 1661 |
| Log (Day): | 1155 nm |
| Log (Leg): | 1155 nm |
| Log (Total): | 86156 nm |
Unfortunately we are having a technical problem with our webpage and cannot upload our daily position reports to the logbook. Therefore this time we will summarize our passage with some additional pictures.
The wind is good to us for the first 5 days, until Friday, with 10 – 20 knots from westerly directions. It is great sailing. But the sky is grey, most of the times there is some drizzle or foggy patches, which does not encourage us to spend our time outside in the cockpit. Between the lookouts we stay inside, enjoy a good book. The temperatures are between 13 and 17 centigrade. Often some dolphins come over to swim in our wake.
On Friday it is clear, that the next days until our arrival will be different. Force 8 wind is forecast and waves up to 4,80 m, together with some rain. All lose things under deck are safely secured and we prepare our serial drogue to be ready to launch. That is long thick rope with 149 little parachutes to reduce speed and keep the boots direction. The wind is increasing to constantly 25-30 knots with gusts up to 40 knots. Big seas are rolling under SuAn or occasionally are also sending lots of water over deck. The main sail is taken down and the jib reefed to the size of a towel is pulling SuAn with 6-7 knots through the heavy seas. It is like slalom around the waves. Even Rudi our autopilot or Lutz can change that behavior of SuAn. At night the wind is going down a bit and our serial drogue can stay under deck.
The Grand Finale with 25 to 39 knots and heavy seas, up to 4,80 m arrives on Monday. Our jib has a size of only 3 square meters (about 10 square foot). But it becomes our best Etmal on that trip with 141 nautical miles.
Tuesday morning we reach the southern coast of Ireland. Bad visibility, some fog and lots of wind with rain is continuing. The marinas in the bay of Kinsale don’t have space for us and the mooring buoy in the river with 4 knots current and 30 knots wind on the nose is dangled and we are not able to tie our boat to it. Finally we raft to one of the local boats on a pontoon.
After 8 days and 20 knots with only 7 engine hours we have sailed 1155 nautical miles in the Northern Atlantic and have safely without any damages arrived in Kinsale, Ireland.
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