The Best Day Of My Life. Or like pretty close.

Riley

Big gennaker downwind sail and confirmation of several life decisions I’d made. I could cry. We had very very nice conditions, mild sea state. We were doing: 20’s in 16-17T > TWA of 130 in super flat water. 23’s in 18T. TWA 140 The least important thing that people mostly want to know was top speed - 24.5 (probably more) It’s the first time we’d really pushed the boat like that, done some big numbers and seen the above wind speed performance. It was also the first time I was truly impressed with the Rapido. It felt like we were on rails at 17 knots. 😳 Some notes on the sail. We sustained on avg well over wind speed with biiiggg acceleration in the puffs. Slowed the boat down twice by going dead down wind. 170T and were sailing at 10-11 knots. Doing 18 knots “felt” like doing 11 on the Outremer but more stable. Again it felt like we were on rails. The kids were doing homeschooling at about 15 knots that is no exaggeration. I ran out of sea room at the end so an important note is that things appear quickly when you are moving at 20knots. It was surprising even having taken that into consideration. Had to furl a rather large gennaker in quite a hurry before turning upwind. ***The main thing though is that IT WAS FUUUNNN everyone wanted a turn at the helm and everyone was impressed with the acceleration. Big smiles.*** *I should say that we aren’t 100% on true wind speed and have just tried to accurately assess. We aren’t sure because if we are going slow the B&G gear says it’s blowing 15knots and as soon as we sheet in and rocket off the TWS jumps to 18/19 which obviously isn’t what the wind speed was. So for example we would call that 16 knots.

Boat & Crew

La Vagabonde

Rapido Trimarans

Riley

Captain

Lenny

Child, Male

Darwin

Child, Male

Elayna Carausu

Owner