Explore Sailing Voyages in Guernsey 🇬🇬

Good winds between 20 and 25 kts. Very choppy sea with wind against tide, I found it quite hard to steer often swinging 30° off course. Got better at predicting the waves after a while. Started on a beam reach before moving more onto a broad reach / training run. Direct route would have been down wind, but with sea state we would have been risking gybes.

Wind from the northwest steady 20kts. There was confusion about the start of the race, the radio wasn’t receiving properly and they tried to delay the start because the big Condor Voyager was due to leave port around the start of the race. Whilst waiting to start, we had an uncontrolled jibe which took Jonathan’s hat and glasses. The glasses went in the sea, thankfully he could still see adequately. Spinnaker went up went on the second leg, but we couldn’t get it down easily as the clutch had jammed, so it came down in an uncontrolled way and the spinnaker pole hit Stephen on the head causing a head injury. In the end we came second which please Stewart. Refee lower heads terres all to starboard.

Windy from ENE Force 4 - 5 Swell 0.7m a bit of chop Boat heeled over after tack and I nearly fell off, held on by life jacket by Tony. We came last 😩

Eerste trip zonder werkende boegschroef na Geurnsey. Getankt in Geurnsey 1€/L