Yesterday we had a splendid sailing day in windy and gusty conditions. I had my fried Lucas with me. The wind ranged between 8 to 15 or 20 knots. Accordingly we had a blast zipping across the bay into the Saco de Sao Francisco, Niteroi, and then to the Museu do Amanha, passing by the Commercial Center of Rio de Janeiro, its naval base and commercial port.
We clocked up to 11,9 knots.
When we first arrived at the boat, on the mooring, the wind was gusting up to 20-25 knots, and we chose not to leave the mooring until we had observed which was the tendency of the conditions. The forecast said there would be winds up to 27 knots. Lucas has a little sailing experience from the youth, when he sailed a Laser, and is keen to now acquire a boat for himslef, and come back into sailing.
So we waited a bit. when the wind reduced a bit, and conditions stabilized, we went out.
Unfortunately we didn't put the asimetric spi into action. The conditions seemed a bit strong to be handled by myself with unexperienced crew only. We had fun without it, too.
At 16hs, the wind piped down, .... the calm before the storm, which was in the forecast. Threrefore, we came back to our mooring. This time with support form the trusted Torqeedo engine.
