NY zeigt sich maritim. Pünktlich zum Jahresende steht ein Segeltörn ins Haus. Es geht von NYC nach San Francisco. Nicht, dass ich mitfahren würde, aber vor 4 Jahren haben Lina und ich ein Mitglied der Besatzung in Wellington, Neuseeland getroffen. Damals war Boris Herrmann mit seinem Co-Skipper im Rennen einer Regatta, die rund um die Welt führte. Morgen startet das Maserati Boot mit einer 8-köpfigen Besatzung aus der North Cove Marina, westl. Manhattan. Einen ausführlicheren Bericht findet ihr unten.
SET OFF IS DUE TOMORROW!
Maserati ready to challenge the New York-San Francisco record. Maserati’s departure towards San Francisco is expected tomorrow, on Monday 31st December, around 18pm (Italy time). Giovanni and Maserati’s team are expected to sail 13225 miles by Cape Horn in less than 57 days, 3 hours and 2 minuts (record by Yves Parlier with Aquitaine Innovations).
Boris Herrmann – navigator of Maserati – explains the weather conditions: “We are ready. Everything is prepared to leave tomorrow. Even the inside stacking is sorted and optimized for the upcoming weather: Everything movable in the boat has been stored to the starboard side and aft to help the boats’ righting moment with the expected winds from starboard in the next couple of days. In fact we expect strong westerly winds till the 3rd of january which makes this is a great moment for us to start the big “Gold-Route” – record around America. We plan to start tomorrow (monday) in the morning local time. Once we pass the famous “Ambrose Light Buoy”, the official record start line, it will be 6 pm in Europe.
We will be steering a general course of around 110 degrees – heading southeast – pushed along downwind in 30 to 35 knots and some increasing sea state. What a great way of welcoming 2013! Fingers crossed we wont have ice and snow for the start.
2nd of January we can expect to sail 150 or 200 miles north of Bermuda and getting rolled over by a strong cold front later that same day. At this point we will likely see some gusts up to 40 knots and wave heights up to 5,5 meters. After 3 days of power reaching we will be approaching a high pressure zone with diminishing winds. Already much warmer conditions by then will make forget the coldness of the north.
If everything goes to plan and we make it through the transition zone of the high pressure quickly, we will catch he trade winds at the end of day 5 and pick up speed again this time in much more pleasant conditions.
If the scenario sticks together we will be already close to the equator by day nine: The trade winds are well established and far north. All depends on how we get through the high pressure transition on the 4th/5th january and how we get through the doldrums…”.
Quelle: http://maserati.soldini.it/domani-si-parte/?lang=en
Optimaler lässt sich kaum auf den Start warten – Liegestelle in der North Cove Marina mit Blick auf die Freiheitsstatue.
NEW YORK – SAN FRANCISCO
The 13225 nautical miles that separate New York from San Francisco via Cape Horn, are an historic route, widely travelled by clippers that were involved in the gold rush starting from the second half of 1800.
The best result of the time was set in 1854 by Flying Cloud, exceptional vessel from the Boston shipyards, that reached San Francisco in 89 days and 21 hours, a record that stood for more than 130 years.
After several attempts by many boats, the 60-foot Thursday’s Child of Warren Luhrs arrived in San Francisco after 80 days and 20 hours in 1989. In 1994, Isabelle Autissier aboard Ecureuil Poitou took 62 days and 5 hours. Then, in 1998, Yves Parlier on board Aquitaine Innovations has dropped to 57 days, 3 hours, 2 minutes. This is the reference record for Giovanni Soldini and his crew who will try to beat it aboard the VOR70 Maserati, from the second half of December 2012.
The overall record in the multihull category belongs to Lionel Lemonchois that made the journey in 43 days and 38 minutes aboard trimaran Gitana 13 in 2008.
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