Ep. 32: Building Momentum - An Ocean Journey - Sailwind!

[@Oluabayo]

Showing the little ships some love:) Good job.

[@Icu2chill]

To be faire they give the love right back at you! Cool experience

[@cesararanda4213]

Great trip with the cog. You got really high winds in the first half, it looked scary but she was handling it like a champ. I always fear missing Happy Bay, that makes it more challenging compared to the full size archipielagos.

[@Icu2chill]

It was a cool experience but definitely not a relaxed one. I was taken aback too with how the Cog handled the journey!

[@jamespfp]

RE: Speeds of 8-12 knots in the Cog; *Well Done!* That's the right idea and totally possible with 2 largish square sails. Sometimes the genoa won't be needed either.

[@Icu2chill]

Not needed as in won't give you additional speed?

[@jamespfp]

23:23 -- RE: The Cog can't really take waves [on the Beam].; A: Mostly True, the sails you're carrying can be let as loose as necessary to relieve heeling and you'll notice that the water stops coming aboard. In much the same way, the correct trim on a foresail should result in a very low frequency Roll, and the correct trim on a Gaff will do the same with Pitching, both of which are where the water is shipping, too. If you're not trimmed right when the Sea arrives, its flooding over the super low freeboard the Cog has on *either* the Upwind or the Downwind side, which is Not Nice in stormy shallow waters.

[@Icu2chill]

I am having issues I let my squares too loose. Takes me off course and still get some heeling. But I need to try with a medium load

[@jamespfp]

14:10 -- RE: Fort Aestrin to Happy Bay, would anyone consider that Open Ocean?; Yeah, I would. Two reasons because 2 options for how to navigate it. One is to head East past Mount Malefic until past the shallower ocean and into the darker blue region marked on the World Map. That gives the lowest frequency Swells with the highest amplitude, and those make for the fastest speeds. The other reason is there's deeper blue to the South as well, so either way it's possible to get the "Open Ocean" characteristics and go into "High Speed" mode. Going straight South is often not going to work out in my experience, mostly because the Winds made it faster to go East until a SE or S heading became ideal. I usually use the Sun compass to keep an eye on the longitude and try to steer within 15 degrees of the S when at or near Happy Bay's longitude line. It's also possible to set-up for a Southeasterly approach and rely entirely on Latitude, since every mile S is another mile E.

[@Icu2chill]

I see I need to optimize my routes! Need to study the main wind currents a bit more