Up at 2:30 am, underway by a little after 3 am. It’s about 85 miles, and we go about 6 knots. We will be anchoring inside, and prefer to have some day light to do it.
Part way into the trip, I put out the mainsail. Then the staysail for a bit. But the wind was pretty light and effectively right on the nose, so I put the staysail away. By about noon, maybe a little later, the wind had shifted a bit to the west and had gone up from about 3 knots to 6 knots. So, I put out the jib, then the staysail we moved up from a little more than 6 knots to 7.25 or so. Yes we are still motor sailing.
Our maximum theoretical speed is 1.34*(sqrt length on the waterline’38 ft’) or about 7.9 knots. That would require flat water, and more wind.
At some point we were about 20 miles off shore, and our internet connection (Starlink) turned off. A couple of hours later, when we were about 12 miles off shore, it came back.
The wind speed is at 9 knots now, I have reduced engine RPM from 3000 (max continuous) to about 2500 rpm boat speed remains about 7.25 knots.
Wind speed continues to rise @10 knots, engine RPM 2000, boat speed
Still about 7.25 knots.
We need 11 or 12 knots wind speed to keep us at 7.25 knots with out the engine. Right now we are between 8 and 10 knots, and the engine at 2000 RPM.
We finally got the engine off and sailed for the last couple of hours into Mazatlan.
