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From: Peter Ogilvie (no email)
Date: Tue Jul 10 2007 - 19:15:48 EDT
Another strategy is to stock up on fuel and sail north as hard on the wind as you and the boat can stand. Once you run out of wind when you hit the high, set a rhumb line course to your destination and motor till you pick up the northerlies on the other side of the high. Once you are out of the high, it's an easy reach to your destination. Supposedly can trim a week off the passage if you can carry enough fuel and have an autopilot to steer. Know more than one boat that has left with a 50 gallon drum lashed down on deck. Don't think I'd advocate that but a well secured flexible tank or a cockpit full of jerry jugs could greatly add to the fuel carried so you could pull it off. Of course, you have to be able to live with motoring for a week or so to pull it off. Think I could live with the joy of sailing for the extra week a lot easier than motoring for that long.
Aloha
Peter O.
Phil Sherwood <> wrote:
Sounds as though you're very well set up. Your plan makes sense to
me. When I went from Hawaii to Washington state a couple of years ago
I basically sailed north along or close to longitude 160, then
somewhere around lat 40 or 42 or so started arcing in ever more NE
toward the coast when I figured I was past the high pressure zones
(which there were a lot of in that part of the Pacific in June 2005).
You'll likely turn sooner of course; with weatherfax you should be
able to gather quite a clear idea of when and how sharply to turn to
make SF and stay clear of the high.
To get farther west I chose to run along the south side of the
islands and go through Kauai Channel rather than deal with Alenuihaha
Channel, which I had heard can be very testy and smack you around at
times. (I had been in Hilo but left from Kailua-Kona, where I could
more easily fuel up, get fuel filters and a few other misc parts.)
Had a great sail 3 miles or so offshore and for the first few days
heading north.
You might download GRIB files as well as weatherfaxes both prior to
departure and when under way as another source of info. Fair winds!
Phil
s/v Cynosure
lying Bahia de Caraquez, Ecuador
At 01:55 PM 7/8/2007, you wrote:
>I will be skippering a 50 foot sailboat from Hilo, Hawaii to San
>Francisco, California. [...]
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