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When the Tide says NO WHSE180

25. mai 2026 · 24 min · 17K visninger · Lombok

Sailboat tacking through choppy blue water, buoy in bow

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A Grinde 27 departs Indonesia for Gili Gedi on a 100-plus-mile coastal passage along the Lombok coastline, needing to time arrival at a tidal pass for the 10 a.m. ingoing current.5:18 Headwinds and a persistent counter-current of up to one knot reduce boat speed to one and a half knots or less, and at midnight the boat makes zero knots over ground at full engine revs with the mainsail up.0:05 Over six hours the boat goes two and a half miles backwards.0:36 The engine is too fragile to run continuously through the night, forcing a choice between motoring into the current and risking overheating or sailing backwards.15:35 FADs, squalls, shifting winds, and debris — including frequent plastic-bag fouling on the fishing line — demand constant attention throughout.0:13 Navionics loses its primary device when the phone stops charging; the crew logs into a second device to recover the chart.11:35 Watch-keeping splits night helm duty so the skipper can sleep.17:48 The boat finally enters the pass 45 minutes late and immediately accelerates to seven knots on the ingoing current.18:48 Coastal passages with tidal gates require planning for worst-case VMG, not average speed, because counter-current can erase hours of progress.

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