2003 The cruise took place quietly on a new sunodyssey37 new, rented a knob in the middle of August, and very carefree young crew, we have great fun.
After two weeks of wandering to the Dalmatian islands we were to leave the island on the last Thursday of Ilovik, ready to cross the Kvarner towards north to Pula, where we returned the boat.
left the boat moored to a buoy in the channel that divides Ilovik by St. pedar, very sheltered spot, landed with a tender for a last gargantuan seafood dinner at a restaurant in our knowledge. The evening was quiet
libeccino just blew just a little fresher than usual.
During dinner, the restaurant that was called by a very Italian name, David, inquired about our trip to the islands to the south, and what was the next program, haim responded that the holiday was over and that tomorrow we would return a knob; "gà Fiolo not you heard the weather this morning? I replied, actually at that moment it occurred to me that I had completely forgotten to listen to VHF broadcast bulletins for two days already, not bad for a skipper who was doing experience. We suffered significant pricing.
Tomorrow is the Yugo, and very strong, and better that you stay here for a few days then we'll see. I replied that it was not possible, we had to return the boat on Saturday morning, I asked him more about the weather and take precautions, said, "is already beginning to feel fit now, the worst towards the first will be tomorrow afternoon, if you must, games As soon as you can, the most of the 4 or 5, the first light of dawn will be more calm. "
The yugo (I had never met until then) is a headwind in the bora, comes from south-west and goes all over the Adriatic with a long Fecht water, as the bora is a strong wind and up a sea relatively long, unlike the bora, which makes him seethe.
We returned to the boat with a tender but not without difficulty, already danced a bit, set your alarm for 5 am and we fell asleep.
The next day we left at 6, esteemed on the wind 10-12 knots from the south and to downwind almost full, rose throughout the genoa and the islands filammo Srakane Susak and about 6-7 knots.
Doubled Susak Kvarner in full, no longer sheltered by the islands the wind increased, reducing the genoa (the mainsail was lowered) to about half. The sea was stern with long waves and a two broke into a roaring white foam, from that moment began an exhilarating ride with many rides. Well
doing four calculations, the anemometer marked from 20 to 25 knots going downwind we were full from 10 to 15 knots by calculating the apparent wind with sufficient precision that I think the true wind went from 30 to 35 knots, one thing was sure never drops below 10 knots , nothing dramatic except for a bit of seasickness that struck some of us who spent the whole time lying in bunks.
was an exciting sailing we reached a record 13.00 to the knob.
The considerations which I have drawn is that wind and sea with such pace in the stern, the boat was instinctively more quickly than I felt safe, roll on a track but remained strong, stable and highly controllable at the helm, even if I frightened a little 'shake keel that shook the floor of the cockpit at some point, even if the waves a little impressed and crushing every now and then we reached the stern, were not much faster than the boat, in fact the boat remained on top for long seconds, surfing with the wave and at the time it reached maximum speed. Of course if we had to climb the wind and sea would not have been possible. At the height of the lighthouse we saw a big Porer gulet (30 meters) and dry sail and motor we tried, we gave up after an hour and returned to Pola.
B'he was certainly an extraordinary experience, But the crew had to suffer, at most there would be some bruising escaped slipping into a roll.
How to avoid it? I read somewhere that statistically the more boats that get into trouble is a time factor. Nothing could be more true! Having to deliver the boat or being in a certain place at a specific date helps enormously. You should always keep a reserve day in the program for a cruise
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