Sailing non-stop from Sydney to Fiji on our catamaran: Part One
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- čas přidán 12. 07. 2023
- Hey, you're going the wrong way! We heard that more than a few times. Sailing from Sydney to Fiji is against the trade winds, and skips the usual stop over in New Zealand, but sunshine, surf and coconuts await.
ALSO - SORRY: You'll notice this video is out of order, we jumped the timeline continuum... but the voyage to Fiji was far too good to wait to show you.
We'll return to where we left off after this trip, and those video's will show how a small family on a plucky little catamaran managed to escape the clutches of work and land life, to head out into the deep blue...
aaah sweet ya back :)
Yes! The boys are cruisin' ⛵
so good. great vid.
SO good to see you're all doing good and you're back...baby is no longer a BABY!!!
yeah big girl now!
Right on Rio. Good stuff. First video I’ve seen from Sailing Rio. I’m a fan now! I’ve got a Seawind 1260 with a HH44 on the way. Launching 44 in the Philippines next year with some luck. Would like to talk if you know those waters along with Indonesia.
Congratulations on the HH44 mate they look epic! We haven’t sailed Indo yet, it’s on the list. We’ve done New Cal, Vanuatu and Fiji apart from some of the east coast Oz and LHI. ✌️
I sailed Hobart to Fiji this year and last. 2500 miles. This year was 12 days 15 hrs in a monohull. You missed a trick not going straight to Savusavu. Much easier clear in and handy for Taveuni, Qamea and the Lau group.
Hi Nigel. Fantastic speed for a trip that long? What's your monohull, must be a bit of a weapon., And yes we cleared in at Denarau but everyone on board was frothing for surf. We spent a few months doing that then took a westerly to Lau group and worked our way downwind from there. Worked out great.
@@SailingSVRio it's a Sundeer 60. Essentially a long light 45 footer. It's very small for a 60 footer but it has a long (60ft) waterline and is easy for a couple to sail fast. It's like cheating...I just don't understand why there aren't more boats like this...though Joe Adams, Graham Radford and Carl Schumacher did a few, and even Paul Bieker. It's what Herreschoff would have drawn with modern materials, though Ariel is a '94 build with noexitic fibres, just plain glass. We still have a D/L ratio of 90 and as long as it's not upwind....she goes like stink. There are few catamarans that outpace us and they are thoroughbreds with a good sail wardrobe and brave skippers. For us it's just.....easy speed.
The formula for a fast, easy boat: long waterline, light displacement and large efficient rig. If you can have efficient appendages underwater, with less drag then all the better. This applies equally to monohulls or multihulls. It's not rocket science. What doesn't get understood is that if you have the long waterline and light weight then the necessary size of the rig , and it's weight, reduces. So then do all the winches, blocks etc. And the loads on the crew, rig, steering, hull etc all come down. This boat has the same size rig as my previous 43ft boat, but we generally do about 20% faster on the Sundeer with less fuss. It's easier to sail. We have few days under 200 miles. On the trip up to Fiji this year we averaged around 200 miles per day. For the last five days we were beam reaching in 10 knots or less. We have no code zero, which would have seen us faster as our biggest headsail is a non overlapping high clewed jib which tacks down 1.5m aft of the stem at 40m² . I also looked at some of the mistakes I made with not shaking reefs out soon enough, delaying a heavy weather gybe until daylight etc and even with the sails we have we could have been 20-24 hrs quicker on that trip. Potentially with a good light airs reaching sail of say 65-70m2 we would have gained another day. So it would be possible to do that trip in something under 11 days. I have talked to one owner of a similar boat that claimed he logged 580 miles in two days. I don't think I am brave enough for that, but I can see that I could do a 250 mile day in this boat.
Sydney too Africa.
What make of catamaran is that? Fountain Pajot?
It’s a Fusion 40. A kit boat. Originally an Australian design and built but the factory moved overseas some years ago.
Beautiful looking boat and good performance. She have mini keels or daggerboards? I just bought the build plans for a cyber 48 from Tim Mumby myself 😈
@@wanabesailer9599 we love the Fusion, wish they had a bigger version. We have mini keels.
Woah big project ahead for you 🙌 congrats
Promo sm