[PUP] Med Bound 2007 Noon Report - June 14

[Sonaia Maryon-Davis]

Hi Milt,



I am following your adventure/challenge with interest and hoping you will
get safe and calm seas all the way to Horta.

I didn't realize that you where going to cross with only other two boats!

I have heard about Christine Bauman of Moana Kuewa from Peter Sheppard when
we met through some 'heated' exchanges on PUP and he told me that a lady
skipper was about to cross the Atlantic on your group and I got very
interested on meeting her (or at least exchange emails with her) and I guess
now I will be able to do it when you guys arrive in Gibraltar.

I was/am VERY impressed that she had taken such a responsibility. Please
tell her that I wish her all the best on her challenge, as I do to all of
you too.



Keep well, safe and dry!

Kisses to Judy!
Sonaia Hermida


On 6/15/07, Georgs Kolesnikovs <waterworld@rogers.com> wrote:
>
> Noon Report June 14, 2007
>
> Position 32-53.16 N 61-46-16 W as of 12:00 EDT Thursday, June 14, 2007
> Course 095 deg M
> Speed 6.2 kts @ 1700 RPM
> 1,652 NM to go to Horta, Faial, Azores
> Distance made good since departure:  164 NM (average 6.3 kts)
> Total fuel consumed 82 gals, average 3.0 GPH, fuel remaining 1398 gal
> Conditions: Wind 170 deg M @ 13 kts. swells 3-4 ft, mostly overcast,
> visibility excellent.
> Barometer 1017.0 mb rising slowly.
> Sea water temp 74 deg F, air temp 74 deg F.
> ETA Horta: May 25-26, 2007
>
> Med Bound 2007's visit to Bermuda is history, and all Med Bound
> yachts are back at sea, all of us much the better for the experience
> thanks to Bermuda's legendary hospitality.
>
> In Bermuda we discovered two boat problems: a leaking stabilizer
> actuator and a broken icemaker fitting.  Vic Kuzmovick, head of Naiad
> Florida, quickly dispatched a service technician to Bermuda to
> replace the leaking actuator.  Tech David D'Orazio arrived Friday
> afternoon with tools and parts in hand and went to work immediately.
> We tested everything in the morning and he left in time to catch a
> noon flight out of Bermuda.  The entire fix was taken care of under
> warranty!  What a terrific company Naiad is to deal with.  I can say
> from long experience that Vic Kuzmovich and Naiad set a very high
> standard for customer service!  Our icemaker issue, a broken Sub-Zero
> part, was not so easily fixed, nor was it of such importance.  We
> still have ice, but must manually turn the icemaker on and off--not a
> big deal.  We'll replace the broken part when we get to it!
>
> Back to the real news: N62 Grey Pearl and N47 Imagine departed Royal
> Bermuda Yacht Club Monday, Pearl bound for Annapolis and Imagine for
> Newport.  Both needed to get moving , and weather router Bob Jones
> called the conditions they'd face difficult but not dangerous,
> something their reports bear out.  Until today Imagine reported a
> pleasant trip with moderate winds and seas, but today's report had
> her approaching the Gulf Stream off Newport with  9-12 foot head seas
> and 25-30 knot headwinds-nasty stuff, indeed.  Grey Pearl reports the
> she has had a rough ride all the way, her speed reduced to less than
> eight knots by headwinds and head seas.  Both yachts have experienced
> crew onboard and are prepared to tough it out.
>
> N47 Summer Skis, N62 New Frontier and N40 Beso, bound for Newport,
> departed RBYC at 10 am yesterday, minutes ahead of Horta-bound group,
> Bluewater, N55 Salty Dawg and N44 Moana Kuewa.  We had taken a cab to
> check out at St. Georges, a painless process.  This morning Skipper
> Jim Fuller sent this report from Summer Skis:
>
> "The Newport Gang has survived it's first of 4 nights at sea.  We
> started off in some substantial seas and wind from the west at 15-20.
> As the night progressed it abated somewhat, and we are now pretty
> comfortable. Seas still on the beam but less than yesterday. We have
> 511 miles to go and the crew of all the boats seem to be holding off
> any mutiny plans at the current moment.  Joey's line did catch a
> fish. Jer reeled it in because Joey was asleep. It was a mahi mahi of
> the huge size of 12". The crew of New Frontier took pity on it and
> sent it back to its mother.  So I guess we have to give Joey the
> benefit of the doubt and give him his fish."
>
> This is taken from my rough log written yesterday:
>
> "0730  Impromptu meeting at the YC to discuss Bob's latest.  Joint
> decision made to go.  Off to St. Georges  by cab with driver Cornell
> to clear out.  Outbound clearance is quick and mostly painless, once
> a few bureaucratic T's are crossed and I's are dotted.  I spy the
> sailing yacht Frog Kiss at the dock and introduce myself to the son
> of Patrick Mouligne, who is juts checking in after completing Leg 1
> of the Bermuda 1-2 Race-singlehanded and ahead of his father's
> Nordhavn 46 as he pointed out.
>
> "1005  Underway from RBYC.  We are sent off by Commodore Andy Cox and
> ace Dockmaster/Marina Manager James Barnes.  Newport-bound group off
> the docks first.  Moana Kuewa last off the docks, with Christine
> Bauman running hard at the last minute to buy Euros then get her
> yacht club bill paid.  We did circles in the harbor waiting for Moana
> Kuewa, then called Bermuda Harbor Radio, and received clearance to
> depart.  Local Nordhavn fans Donald and Mavis Cave are our escort
> vessel in their Mainship, accompanying us nearly to the Spit Buoy off
> St. Georges.
>
> "We proceed out the South Channel, following about a mile astern of
> the Newport-bound yachts.  Much chatter on the radio back and forth.
>
> "By agreement with Salty Dawg and Moana Kuewa, the Horta-bound group
> is running at about 6.3 knots.  For Bluewater that's 1700 RPMs,
> several hundred RPMs below our usual speed but a good speed for
> conserving fuel on this, the longest non-stop run we've undertaken in
> this boat.  Having enough fuel for this 1,818-mile run is something
> we need to pay close attention to.  We notice that the boat is quiet
> and the engine room running much cooler at these low RPMs and with no
> generator on line.
>
> "About three hours out from RBYC as we're leaving Bermuda waters we
> receive a VHF radio call from Patrick Mouligne aboard Frog Kiss II.
> Patrick wishes Med Bound well,  reporting his trip was excellent and
> that he already likes his "new" Nordhavn 46 a great deal.  His is
> what I call "the First Lady of Nordhavn," the very first Nordhavn
> yacht ever built.
>
> "By late afternoon, the morning overcast gives way to sunny skies.
> Winds are on the starboard quarter at 6-8 knots and seas are 2-4.
> Water temp is 75 degrees and air temp about the same.  The boat is
> open, the fishing line trails in our wake, and it couldn't be nicer.
> No fish"
>
> Today dawned overcast with light rain, but the winds and seas were
> still down, giving us a comfortable ride.  We saw just a couple of
> ships overnight; this run is mostly out of the shipping lanes so we
> expect to see few ships along the way.  All three yachts on this leg
> have two-way AIS units, so it's very easy to keep track of one
> another.  We're running in the same kind of loose inverted-V
> formation we used on the way to Bermuda, but with three yachts it's
> much easier.  Bluewater is at the top of the V with Salty Dawg a mile
> back to port and Moana Kuewa a mile back to starboard-close enough to
> keep an eye on one another day and night yet far enough away to pose
> no danger.
>
> Aboard Bluewater we use three-hour watches, starting at 2100 or 9 pm.
> I take the first watch, Judy relieves me at midnight, and George
> relieves her at 0300.  I'm back on watch at 0600, fresh from nearly
> six hours of sleep, then Judy is back at 0900.  From 1200 to 2100, no
> one "officially" has the watch-it falls to whomever is available.
> Judy does all the meals, so George and I usually split off the
> daytime watches informally.  With only three yachts, rolls calls are
> quick and easy; we're doing them at 0900 and 2100.  We do a full
> power run about 1145 each day to run up the engines to full RPMs,
> blow out the carbon, and check the fuel filter vacuum gauges-Lugger
> Bob Senter pointed out in a seminar that the vacuum gauge readings
> are valid only at full power.  I like to think that a short full
> power run will help identify problems well because they become
> serious; I hope I'm right!
>
> Many yachts measure fuel consumption precisely using an expensive
> device called a FloScan.  The FloScan is so accurate, to quote Dennis
> Bruckel on Salty Dawg, it shows a burn rate of a tenth of a gallon or
> two (per hour) more going up a swell than down a swell!  Both Salty
> Dawg and Moana Kuewa have FloScans, and both skippers have high
> confidence in their accuracy.  Alas, Bluewater does not have one so
> we do our fuel measurement the old fashioned way-by looking at sight
> gauges, estimating, and using a table created for our boat using an
> Excel spreadsheet.  This morning I used the Nordhavn 47's elegant
> fuel system to measure our actual fuel consumption at 1700 RPMs with
> no generator running.  It came to 3.0 gallons per hour, and I should
> hasten to add that's approximate at best: watching the fuel level
> using a sight gauge on a rolling boat is never going to be precise!
> Still, 3 GPH is consistent with our past experience and what our
> engine manufacturer, Lugger, calls for running at 1700 RPMs.
>
> If we look at our 1,818-mile passage from Bermuda to Horta and divide
> by a speed of advance (SOA) of 6.3 knots, Bluewater should be
> underway on this passage for about 290 hours or 12 days.  Multiply
> that by 3 gallons per hour and we SHOULD use less than 900 of our
> 1480 gallons.  Ah, but that does not include the possibility of more
> hours for a weather divserion or for heavy headwinds and head seas
> (let's add, say, another 20% ) which could take us up to main engine
> fuel consumption of 1,044 gallons.  Then add in some generator time,
> for openers let's say an average of 2 hours per day at one GPH, for a
> generator burn of 26 gallons.   It all comes to an admittedly soft
> fuel burn estimate of 1,070 gallons, leaving a reserve of 410
> gallons-roughly 28%.  I hope it works out that way!   In fact, we'll
> watch it day by day.  If we reach the halfway point with what we
> expect, perhaps we can ratchet up the speed and generator time a bit
> and arrive with less.  One more consideration: we need to take on at
> least 1,325 gallons (350 liters) in Horta to qualify for duty free
> fuel pricing.
>
> As I finish this up at 1400, I note that the wind has come around to
> SSE and our boat speed at 1700 RPMs is down to 5.6 to 5.7 knots-it
> may just be a longer trip than we think!
>
> --Milt, Judy, George and Schipperke Katy
> --
> Milt Baker
> Bluewater
> Nordhavn 47 #32
> http://www.bluewaternav.com
>
> A compilation of reports from Med Bound 2007 may be viewed at
> <http://www.nordhavn.com>. Click on Med Bound 2007.
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