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EP#388 Becalmed and then Sailing

19 Νοεμβρίου 2025 · 36 λεπτά · 130 προβολές · North Atlantic Ocean

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Jerome Rand, sailing solo on the Westsail 32, reports being becalmed roughly 700 miles from Florida while attempting to arrive in time for Thanksgiving on November 28.4:11 After motoring three hours to charge batteries, the alternator output never exceeded 13.2 volts, pointing to a corroded connection he plans to inspect.1:07 The passage follows a two-day gale that Rand now second-guesses: he chose to run ahead of the system rather than heave-to until it fully died, and reflects that waiting to cross the Gulf Stream in near-zero wind would have been the safer call.6:38 Bermuda lay 200 miles off the beam; he considered stopping but pressed on.3:47 A wind vane (named Mongo) nearly lost a brass fitting during the gale — a failure that would have forced hand-steering indefinitely.18:49 After the calm breaks, a 60-degree wind shift while he slept sends the boat northwest; he jibes onto starboard tack and douses the hanked-on jib without a furling unit.22:26 Starlink provides daily weather downloads and family check-ins.16:32 A nighttime segment covers naked-eye navigation using Polaris, the Big Dipper, and the binary star Mizar in Ursa Major.26:38 Waiting until a gale fully passes before crossing the Gulf Stream, he concludes, is the more prudent strategy.

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