We want to visit the bays along the north coast of Hiva-Oa. Thus we planned already a few days ago to leave Omoa in the evening and sail through the night around the eastern corner of Hiva-Oa to arrive in the morning hours in the Puamau Bay.<\/p>\n
Thus, at 1825 we lifted the anchor on Omoa and started sailing north.<\/p>\n
As long as we where in the land coverage of Fatu-Hiva, the wind was instable in direction and speed. When a valley opened, we had wind speeds of 20 KN and MaRe accelerated in her night gown – main at reef 2 and genoa full – to more than 7 KN. But west of the high mountains north of Hanavave, the wind was gone. We used the engines to push a bit further north to get the trade wind undisturbed from mountains.<\/p>\n
This worked out well As soon as we were close to the northern cape of Fatu-Hiva, the wind increased and started sailing again. In winds of mainly 5 Bft from 80 – 90 deg AWA on STB MaRe started running. STW ranges from 5 KN to almost 8 KN. In average of the last 3 h we made 6.9 KN. Because we are so fast, we will arrive at the eastern corner of Hiva-Oa already before 0300.<\/p>\n
After passing the corner, I consider to get main down and sail only with a reduced genoa at an AWA of 150 deg. At sich am AWA, I can easily reduce the genoa to slow down enough that we arrive at the Puamau Bay only on full sunlight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We want to visit the bays along the north coast of Hiva-Oa. Thus we planned already a few days ago to leave Omoa in the evening and sail through the night around the eastern corner of Hiva-Oa to arrive in the morning hours in the Puamau Bay. Thus, at 1825 we lifted the anchor on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}