Tough head winds make for frustrating home run

2,294 views  |   February 27th, 2012 

I guess we all assumed that once turned the corner from the Horn everything was going to be easy, I certainly did, so I was a little surprised when last night the wind piped up to a fierce 35-40 knots dead on the nose in a nasty chop and a mysterious 2 knots adverse current. The net result was 12 hours of very nasty sailing and very little progress.

With frustration building quickly we came to the stark realisation that that the last stretch from the Strait of Le Maire to Punta was not to be ftaken for granted. We totally missed the train with the weather, Cessna ahead of us hooked into very strong following winds propelling them at furious speeds towards the finish line, here we struggle to make much progress at all covering just about 100 miles per day in endless headwinds, rather disappointing.

The forecast ahead is rather complex and we just have to keep pressing and tacking on the wind shifts, I think we will not see any following winds for another 2 days!

Posted by: firstclass

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