{"id":1590,"date":"2026-01-08T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/blog\/2026\/01\/08\/260108-we-are-sailing-towards-kosrae\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T10:58:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T10:58:00","slug":"260108-we-are-sailing-towards-kosrae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/blog\/2026\/01\/08\/260108-we-are-sailing-towards-kosrae\/","title":{"rendered":"260108_We are sailing towards Kosrae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>N\t 07\u00b0 15.419<br \/>\nE\t171\u00b0 01.287<\/p>\n<p>At 1740 we casted the lines off 1 the mooring ball.  Friends from SV Alicia, and SV Seal waved farewell.<\/p>\n<p>We first sailed with genoa inside the lagoon towards the pass. But then I used the engines additionally to get through the pass as early as possible.<\/p>\n<p>On the way to the pass Tobi fixed a soup and then penne pasta.<\/p>\n<p>I ate while sitting at the steering wheel to make sure all is under control.<\/p>\n<p>Just before turning into the pass,  we furled the genoa to have maximal freedom of navigating MaRe through the pass on her old track when we came into the atoll.<\/p>\n<p>I used trackmode to allow the autopilot to control current and wind drift. It does this pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>In the pass, the sea chart shows 6 cardinal signs, but only 3 were illuminated. That&#8217;s more than I expected. I followed my old track, thus did not depend on the signs.<\/p>\n<p>Once we were out, we unfurled the genoa and trimmed it with the barber hauler. This way we reached the WPT &#8220;Majuro N&#8221; where we gybed and went on course 259 direct to the entry WPT for Kosrae, Micronesia,  490 NM away.<\/p>\n<p>Although we make with wind of 11 KN about 4.5 KN STW, the current reduces the SOG by 1-2 KN. That&#8217;s not so nice, but there&#8217;s nothing we can do.<\/p>\n<p>If the wind follows the forecast we get several times winds of up to 20 KN from E to ENE. That can increase our speed by about 2 KN.<\/p>\n<p>As we see the lights of several fishing boats, most likely only from China, we check radar every 20 min to make sure that we don&#8217;t meet a Chinese fishing boat without an AIS running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N 07\u00b0 15.419 E 171\u00b0 01.287 At 1740 we casted the lines off 1 the mooring ball. Friends from SV Alicia, and SV Seal waved farewell. We first sailed with genoa inside the lagoon towards the pass. But then I used the engines additionally to get through the pass as early as possible. On the [&hellip;]<\/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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2026-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","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=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}