Saturday 7 December 2013

Stats for our summer sailing

Below is some stats about the amount and type of sailing we did.  The distance travelled is estimated as the log impeller stopped working during the trip and sometimes we forgot to turn on the main GPS, but it should be broadly correct.

Days: away 63, on which we sailed 29
Hours underway: 471.75 of which 49 were motoring
Distance travelled: 633 nm
Longest passage: 133 nm (from La Ciotat to Gruissan)
Shortest passage: 14 nm
Average passage: 22 nm (which equates to about 4 hours sailing)

I suspect that we spent less time motoring than most cruising yachts because having a lightish weight catamaran (and not being bothered too much about how fast we sail) we sail in wind strengths that most monohulls would barely be moving in.