Day 131 - 2/24 Depth sounder, Dood sailing day. (3 hours work and 4 hours fun)

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Morning spent Making order on things on a boat to have less mess on the floor :)

Main thing was done is making order with wires inside wheel pedestal, connect depth sounder and Log to Open Plotter computer, so no more need to get on the floor to get readings on the knees. (previous owner put instrument too low on the pedestal, so it appears almost unusable).

My dshboard now.


 

Then afternoon I had a nice sailing in steady wind of 10 kts south. in 4 hours we did 15.2 NM with average speed 3.2kts and top one 6.5. My hull speed is 7.0kts. So we was close enough if count the last cleaning I did in September.

During sailing boat points pretty well.



  Short  video from this trip.  Link here.


On one on Close hull tacks.

6.35 kts on beam reach.  Top was higher.



Little relaxing...
Getting home at night
Still under sail. Wind dropped to 5-6 kts but still there. Full moon helps a lot.
Night sails


 

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