#50 | Bidding Farewell and Planning for a Fearsome Passage
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- Join us on our journey as we bid farewell to our winter berth in Largs and set sail for new horizons. After two unforgettable winters, leaving behind cherished friends, we embark on a fresh adventure. Amid relentless weather conditions that had reigned for the past month, a sudden weather window beckons us to plan for a fearsome passage and to navigate the notorious Mull of Kintyre.
With a bit of planning, we navigate the Mull amid challenging spring tides and gusty winds, braving the turbulent overfalls at the Mull to reach the tranquil shores of Islay. There, we reunite with old friends aboard the good ship Castella, reigniting the camaraderie of past encounters.
For those curious about our passage planning methodology, we delve into the intricacies in the second part of this video. Using today’s journey as a blueprint, we unveil our step-by-step approach of how we plan our sailing passages, inspired by a simple yet effective graphic method apparently utilised in the Royal Navy.
Don’t miss this captivating blend of adventure and information as we navigate the high seas and share insights into the practice of our passage planning.
Chapters:
00:00 Weather Report
01:03 Filling Up Diesel and Farewell
03:11 Sailing Towards The Mull
05:46 The Mull Of Kintyre
08:19 Arriving in Port Ellen
09:21 How we do a Passage Plan
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Music from Epidemic Sound:
Mr And Mrs Flynn by David Celeste
What It's Like by Sleeping Vines
Adventure Ahead by Christoper Mo Ditlevsen
Farewell by Jon Algar
Aiming At Polaris by Francis Wells
Variations in C-Major on "A, Vous Dirai-Je Maman" by K. 256_Thema
Weather routing by www.luckgrib.com
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Thank you for teaching me the passage plan! I was using a mixture of different techniques I "invented", but yours is putting it all together and making it simpler, for sharing with the crew but also for me.
The route planning is brilliant! Easy to understand and execute. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you that was very helpful and easy to understand for everyone travelling
Nice job
Very helpful, simple graphical way of planning.. Thanks for sharing.
Love the passage plan! Very clear and a 'compressed' way of presenting the info. Also very useful for tracking along the way. Too bad I didn't watch this BEFORE my sail through the Solet...😊 Thanks!
Thank you so much for shearing this experience! We gonna be around the Mull inn a few days. Pollen
You‘ll be fine!!
Great video guys
Thanks guys!
Interesting planning. Of course if you mainly sail, such things generally go out the window (through the companion way hatch!) as you never predict your speed.
I have done the Mull in a 21ft boat. Had to anchor at Sanda island, then catch the inner tidal stream, amazing to be travelling at 9knts in a boat with a maximum speed of 5knts! The wierd thing is that the flow in the main Chanel is going the other way.
Like you I hit that big swell as I came round the corner.
Well done on a 21ft boat! That’s impressive. We were sailing at the same time as friends of ours who left from Belfast at the time we left Largs and they were indeed stuck in the North Channel whilst we were whizzing round the Mull with a SOG of 10kts…
@@sailingpolaris I was heading for Rathlin island, and mainly eyeballing the heading, but staying upwind so I could turn downwind as I approached. That was a big mistake as I got into the tail of the Macdonald race, which goes at 9 to 12knts…and not in my direction. Only running with full sail and motor did I make it. My course to steer was a good 45deg off my heading!
ps, Rathlin worth a visit, especially if you by shear chance arrive when they have a traditional music night in the pub.
What an excellent video. I started using the same system several years ago, but I used detailed tidal information on the plan. This is because my dinghy only sails slowly so is at the mercy of the tide and it is very critical. A great advantage of the system is that it goes round corners! But for most simple passages I find a simple written statement of tidal streams and waypoints will suffice. Many thanks.
Great to see Polaris in the water again. It’s good to see how you plan your passages. Lots to consider. 👍
Thanks for watching Jo, as ever!!
Thank you for sharing the passage plan! Very nice.
And the season begins! Lovely. Well done on a good rounding. All the very best to you both. Asha & Mark
Thanks guys! Hope your boat works are coming along well!
@@sailingpolaris 💦 on Friday 😀❤️
A great example of Sailing Passage Planning and really well explained. I have been meaning to use this method for a long time but never got round to it. Thanks buddy!
Thanks Tom! Enjoy the snow in Switzerland… 😎
Thank you for the credit.
A long first day for you both, I hope you remembered it all as it’s been a long winter.
I like your passage planing model, I think I will adopt it for longer passages. Have a great summer, talk again soon.
Best wishes to both of you.
Pippin and I are anchored for the weekend in the Kyles as I sort things for the season.
Thanks for watching and for your comment. Enjoy the Kyles!
That was an interesting watch. We realised early on in the video that you would have wind over tide around the Mull and your charts kept showing the overfalls.... 😮 but what I really wanted to comment on was your passage planner. We like it.
We have done something similar putting time on a "Y Axis" and critical tide gates on the "X- Axis" and just writing times at the intersections. It never occurred to us to space them out better and connect them graphically, so this was something of an "Ah-ha!" moment.
Since we are a British flagged boat and you credit the Royal Navy with this, I guess we better start using it 😄so we have out passage planning book out and we are going to try it with some of our old passages.
Thanks again (and it is always nice to see a Bavaria on YT 😉)
Thanks for watching Salty Lass. We‘ve been following your channel for a while. We spotted a window to round the Mull, knowing it wouldn’t be ideal… but we itched to start the season.
We were a bit surprised to see the overfalls extending that far in, actually to the shore. Last time we rounded the Mull there was a gap close inshore…
Fair winds and following seas!
Daniel & Kathrin
@@sailingpolaris- perhaps the issue of the overfalls being so close in was a mix of the springs and the wind-over-tide? Good on you for doing it, we probably would have gone south of Sanda 😀 We hope you have a great season and we will be doing a virtual cruise this year via channels like yours
Kind regards
Bev & Gaynor
Greetings!
Thank you for sharing this method of passage planning. I have taken the IYT(ICC) course online few years ago, and currently I am looking for opportunities to have some sailing experience. I like this short and simple class, which is very resourceful.
PS. I love the supper pen Bick 😊
It has been a while since I have used one.
Fair winds! 😊
Nice and clear, great way to do a plan. thanks :-)
WOW….. was für ein Start ins neue Segelabenteuer❤…. Alles Gute 🙏
Danke Manu!!
Fair winds!
Moin aus Kappeln an der Schlei, vielen Dank für das Video, es ist eine große Hilfe
Gerne Sven! Und schön, einen Zuschauer aus Deutschland dabei zu haben! Fair Winds, Following Seas und immer eine Handbreit…
@@sailingpolaris Könntest Du mir bitte mal eine Frage beantworten,
hast Du die im Reeds veröffentlichten Zeiten für Ebbe & Flut in der englischen Sommerzeit verwendet oder noch eine Stunde für UTC aufgeschlagen ? lg Sven
@seajet1000 also für dieses Video habe ich Imray‘s Tide Planner App benutzt. Habe mir dieses Jahr keinen Reed‘s gekauft, da wir nach Norwegen gehen… die App ist auf BST eingestellt.
Reeds gibt an, von wann bis wann Daylight Saving Time (Sommerzeit) und damit UTC +1 gilt.
Really interesting passage planning section, however if you have to tack upwind, thereby increasing distance travelled, how do you accommodate this in the passage plan? I'm guessing, you'd probably motor upwind that case rather than sail?
Ha, good question, made me think. If you tack, along a straight route your speed line on the diagram will represent the VMG, not SOG. If you deviate from the track, e.g. when you tack, your VMG decreases and you will have to allow for this in your plan. But yes, if I have to make a point at a time I will motor or motorsail to make it.
Welcome back Daniel. I am happy to see you on the water for a new season. Where will you go this summer?
I started my season a couple of weeks ago, from Cartagena, Spain for a warm Mediterranean Summer.
Your passage planning is fantastic and with your permission I will adopt it for the future. Being in the Med this summer I do not have to deal with Tides but my focus will be on winds and meteo forecast.
Happy sailing season and fair winds. Maurizio
Hi Maurizio
Thanks for reaching out! We are on our way to Norway, just entered the Caledonian Canal…
Please feel free to use the tool and have a great season!
Great to have you back for another season and thank you for the passage planning explanation. I assume that you account for tides by reducing/increasing the speed between waypoints?
Yes, that‘s how we do it (if we want to be super accurate). But mostly I just draw a 4,5 and 6kt line to get an idea…
One question. I saw quite some episodes ago that you have an orange storm sail. I also sail a Bavaria 46 (2017) and to my knowledge, the standard B46 mast has two halyard slots. The one above the forestay attachment is for the gennaker and the one below the forestay attachment is for the genoa. To my knowledge there is no other slot on the forward side of the mast that I can lead a staysail halyard through. How did you do it?
Do you remove the Genoa completely and hoist the storm sail from the genoa forestay or did you drill a third hole in the mast to lead the staysail halyard through?
We have fitted a removable staysail in dyneema and with this the rigger cut an additional exit below the staysail and one at the level of the spinaker halyard exit for the staysail halyard. The storm sail (and the working jib) are hank on sails for the staysail.
This also required fitting a winch at the mast to hoist the staysail and some reinforcements to the deck fitting.
PM me if you want more details.
@@sailingpolaris Thank you for the information. I was hoping it was possible to do it without cutting into the mast, because that is a very big job. I have sometimes felt very overpowered in some storms. Sailing with a partly furled genoa in 50 knots is like a fast track to break the mast. One time I got caught in 45 knots and I have set a new personal speed record: 16.8 knots over ground 😨. There wasn't even any current in the equation...
Thanks again for the info, I'm really enjoying the content 🙂👍
On the distance axis how do you pick where to put your way points "your most important ones" ? can you point me to where did you get this from royal navy? Thanks for sharing.
The „important“ waypoints I put on the distance axis depend on the route. I normally don’t put down every turn, but you could of course. Typically, my waypoints on the plan are be a tidal gate, a landmark, the edges of a TLS, a radio calling point, whatever you deem is important for you on your passage. Sorry, as this was quite some time ago I cannot remember where I found it on the web.
Very interesting way of doing and managing passage planning. However, I have spent much time to search internet for more explanations on this and couldn't find anything. Would you mind pointing me to your source? Thank you
I am really sorry, I can‘t remember where I found it on the web. I also searched when we produced this video and I could not find anything. It is a couple of years back though…
@@sailingpolaris No worries, very self explanatory! Fair winds....maybe we'll meet on the Scottish seas in June/July
@edouardfourcade7794 have a safe trip! We hope to be in Norway by then…
Thank you for this - will help me heaps - as I have commented before we hope to winter in Largs and follow your wake.. many thanks.. you mentioned before - that we should use Charts from the area that you can use on an iPad - please could you remind me and what Pilot books we need for W Scotland -Faroes etc.
Hi Dirk
The charts I mentioned before are the Antares charts, you‘ll find them with Google.
The pilot books are Clyde Cruising Club Sailing Directions and Anchorages. You can get them from Imray or any decent chandlery up here.
Happy sailing!
@@sailingpolaris thank you for your kind help
Great passage planning lesson. Thank you. Do you plan for tides in your plans (SOG unlikely to be consistent around UK waters)?
Tides are the only crux… but I know that depending on the circumstances we do 5 - 6.5kts and if we really have to make a time we don‘t shy away from helping with the engine…
Great film, Rn passage plan much easier than RYA. they add too much clutter. safe watch. Spotted a plan on your ipad on the east coast are you heading to the Caledonian canal?
Great to see the Swiss boats over here, welcome in Edinburgh any time (Port Edgar or Granton)
Well spotted…
Yes, we are in the Caledonian Canal right now, heading to Inverness and then… 😉
@@sailingpolaris enjoy lots of good food along the way and Peterhead a very welcome marina.