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Rainha Jannota is finally home
After 917 nautical miles and 4 days and 10 hours, Rainha Jannota is now tied up in Marina de Aratu in Salvador Bahia.
With a small one night stopover in Rio de Janeiro for the 50 hours engine review, and also to load a new second anchor set up, the trip took place in all kinds of weather and sea conditions and passed all navigability tests. The first leg from Ubatuba to Rio took 122 miles coming around Ponta da Joatinga also called the Brazilian Cape Horn. The cross was done doing the night with 25 knts SSE wind and 8’ to 12’ ESE Sea in 6 sec to 8 sec intervals. Rainha was hardly beaten for about 6 hours from 11:00 PM to 5:00 AM.
Leaving Rio in the afternoon of the next day was another nightmare as we found the low tide facing South High waves and wind. 12’ water walls were raised against Rainha’s Bow and I thought we were going to break the boat in several pieces.
Once turning Cabo Frio going north to Cabo San Tome, things smoothed up. The famous challenge in San Tome never materialized as we encountered the sea in calm conditions with barely some wind from SSE. However, suddenly after 9:00 PM, the sea raised quickly while the wind moved from SSE to NE. As long as we traveled in shallow waters 25 miles offshore in well-known fishing grounds, we had to face water in our faces while rallying around boats and fishing nets or long lines set ups.
Early in the morning of the third day and until shutting down the boat’s engines, we had no more problems than administrating fuel consumption.
The trip took 4 days and 10 hours at an average speed of 8.65 knots with a consumption of 4.5 GPH.
In this trip I was not trying to save fuel and we mostly run at 2000 RPM
After 917 nautical miles and 4 days and 10 hours, Rainha Jannota is now tied up in Marina de Aratu in Salvador Bahia.
With a small one night stopover in Rio de Janeiro for the 50 hours engine review, and also to load a new second anchor set up, the trip took place in all kinds of weather and sea conditions and passed all navigability tests. The first leg from Ubatuba to Rio took 122 miles coming around Ponta da Joatinga also called the Brazilian Cape Horn. The cross was done doing the night with 25 knts SSE wind and 8’ to 12’ ESE Sea in 6 sec to 8 sec intervals. Rainha was hardly beaten for about 6 hours from 11:00 PM to 5:00 AM.
Leaving Rio in the afternoon of the next day was another nightmare as we found the low tide facing South High waves and wind. 12’ water walls were raised against Rainha’s Bow and I thought we were going to break the boat in several pieces.
Once turning Cabo Frio going north to Cabo San Tome, things smoothed up. The famous challenge in San Tome never materialized as we encountered the sea in calm conditions with barely some wind from SSE. However, suddenly after 9:00 PM, the sea raised quickly while the wind moved from SSE to NE. As long as we traveled in shallow waters 25 miles offshore in well-known fishing grounds, we had to face water in our faces while rallying around boats and fishing nets or long lines set ups.
Early in the morning of the third day and until shutting down the boat’s engines, we had no more problems than administrating fuel consumption.
The trip took 4 days and 10 hours at an average speed of 8.65 knots with a consumption of 4.5 GPH.
In this trip I was not trying to save fuel and we mostly run at 2000 RPM
