April 17th. 6.9nm. The aim was an 'Italian tune-up' for the outboard which, somehow, was behaving poorly. I'm pretty certain, retrospectively, that I had inadvertently managed to get water into the fuel, which is a bit daft straight after a service. After several spluttering attempts at starting the engine, I decided to get any contaminants well and truly out of the system. Fortunately, all has been well since. This was the first track of the season. 
April 26th. 4.3nm. This was the first sail of the season. Began by tacking in an Easterly direction, and then went for a run past Pin Mill, to Woolverstone. Then motored back to the mooring (just to check on the outboard's functionality).
May 4th. 11.4nm. A busy bank holiday. Sailed out through Harwich harbour and Felixstowe docks. Anchored just beyond the Felixstowe docks for lunch. The wind steadily increased all day. A reduced rig of jib and mizzen, tacking back up the Orwell, with a final flourish of outboard back to the mooring.
May 10th. 6.7nm. Sailed from start to finish! Lovely North-westerly run down to the Orwell bridge, then superb fun tacking back to beyond the mooring, then backing round to the mooring.
April 17th. 6.9nm. The aim was an 'Italian tune-up' for the outboard which, somehow, was behaving poorly. I'm pretty certain, retrospectively, that I had inadvertently managed to get water into the fuel, which is a bit daft straight after a service. After several spluttering attempts at starting the engine, I decided to get any contaminants well and truly out of the system. Fortunately, all has been well since. This was the first track of the season. 
April 26th. 4.3nm. This was the first sail of the season. Began by tacking in an Easterly direction, and then went for a run past Pin Mill, to Woolverstone. Then motored back to the mooring (just to check on the outboard's functionality). 
May 4th. 11.4nm. A busy bank holiday. Sailed out through Harwich harbour and Felixstowe docks. Anchored just beyond the Felixstowe docks for lunch. The wind steadily increased all day. A reduced rig of jib and mizzen, tacking back up the Orwell, with a final flourish of outboard back to the mooring.
May 10th. 6.7nm. Sailed from start to finish! Lovely North-westerly run down to the Orwell bridge, then superb fun tacking back to beyond the mooring, then backing round to the mooring.
Hi Julian,
ReplyDeleteWhat a smart way to show your trips, using GPS and Google Earth! At what intervals do you set the GPS marks usually?
Greetings from Erik
Coaster Ronan (the Netherlands)
Oriental Swan (VORG)
As I replied in an email to you Erik, I use a Garmin 60CS. Cannot seem to find any objective information on track point frequency. My setting is on "normal" and the other four options are most/more often and less/least often! The downloaded tracks seem to show a new point every 45 seconds, on average, but this varies significantly between less than 20 seconds and over 90 seconds. I'll try and work out what initiates a new point.
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