Activity
St Peter Port to Starcross YC
Sailing
3 Jun 2018
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85.0 nm
Distance
15h 44m
Moving time
5.4 kn
Average speed
7.9 kn
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- Description
- Back from St Peter Port to Starcross Yacht Club on the Exe. Up the Little Russell at about 08:00 with just a little "wind against tide bounciness" at the top end. Then across the shipping lanes with very good visibility. The sail started with an excellent wind from the north east at about F4 to F5ish but died away a little after crossing the second shipping lane. So it was on with the motor for maybe the last third of the journey reaching the Exe at about 23:00 and on to the mooring just before midnight. I don't think the Exe is a good place to try to navigate at night without local knowledge (it's our "home port") - too many unlit channel / lateral buoys and moorings very close to the channel edge. My "top tip" for navigating the Exe at night is that if the red / green channel buoy you are navigating for doesn't flash occasionally then you're heading for Brunel's railway line!
- Start
- 3 Jun 2018 at 08:13:08
- End
- 4 Jun 2018 at 00:05:36
- Participants
- Aidan
- Tags
- CI & France 2018 Fulmar St Peter Port SYC