Emilia on the move

It has been annoying me that Emilia sails differently on each tack. She sails extremely well on one and terribly on the other. I have lost my confidence as a sailor.

Then I thought that maybe the wind sensor is not quite mounted exactly at zero degrees, even if it is not detectable to the naked eye? So I set the offset in the instruments to 5 degrees and all of a sudden Emilia sails fantastically on both tacks! My conclusion is that in fact the wind sensor is mounted a little off side. Has anyone else fiddled with the offset like this?

When I reached Kalmar, which is one of the bigger towns along the coast, we got some bad weather with high winds and rain and what better than to stay in harbour and read? For that I have bought two books written by a fellow forum member and 371 sailor. I have already read his book "Tiger and the robot". Well recommended!

Johan




Edited by Johan Hackman - 09 July 2024 at 08:50

I just realised that since I got to Kalmar I have been sailing on my own with the two cats as my only company. I cannot remember the last time I spent that amount of time sailing single-handed but it sure is more than a decade ago. It has however been a good experience and I have had to brush up my skills on handling the boat alone. It also reminds me how easy handling the 342 is when you have the right setup. Main and jib sheets in the cockpit is just one example of what makes handling easy.

I continued to sail south in nice weather until I reached the most southeastern part (a place called Sandhamn) where I decided to head north again. With a strong wind from southeast I got seas that had all the way from Poland to build up and that made for a day of fairly tough sailing. The cats actually showed that they were scared. But the funny thing is that when after a long day of sailing we entered the harbour Mörbylånga and everything calmed down you couldn't tell that they had experienced the tough sailing. They were just waiting for their food to be served.

Johan


Emilia in Mörbylånga

Johan Hackman wrote: This picture could have cost me my drone. ... Now it seems to fly well again so maybe I will try more "flying camera photos" in the future.

Last time I flew my flying camera I nearly lost is.

When I took the below picture the other day I also nearly lost it but this time not only once but twice.

First I realised that the reason that I couldn't drive forward was that I was not logged into my account and the there was a range limit of 20 metres so I had to go back and fetch it. When I then tried again the batteries in the remote control went flat and I had to go back and fetch it again.

I also filmed a bit and here is a "blooper video" from when I tried to retrieve my flying camera for anyone interested: https://youtu.be/C9_1vYejiC4.

Johan



Edited by Johan Hackman - 26 July 2024 at 10:24

Edited by Captain Cook - 26 July 2024 at 22:38

Rock wrote: This resonates with me Johan.

Mine is also a Mavic Mini. I am sorry to hear yours died.

It is way more difficult to fly a drone from a boat than from land. Both the drone and yourself get confused about what is stationary and what isn't. So you and the drone will disagree whether the boat is the home port or not.

Johan