After 25 years of boating in the solent i had never been round the island so yesterday we went round in the Hunton rib wanted to crack the hour done it in 52mins 13 secs.
Got me thinking if many other members had timed runs
After 25 years of boating in the solent i had never been round the island so yesterday we went round in the Hunton rib wanted to crack the hour done it in 52mins 13 secs.
Got me thinking if many other members had timed runs
well done
Have gone round many times only always stop for lunch either Yarmouth, Ventnor or Cowes
There are national records i think you can get from the RYA site
I was told the mileage is 57 therefore our average was 66 mph. Max speed of the boat on a flat day up and down southampton water the day before was 69 and 71
With abit of chop we get a couple more mph
Highly recommend having ablast round as you meet 3 types of sea conditions.
in october this year we had a trip from hamble point to hamble point in a anti clockwise direction around the island total elapsed time was 3hrs 45mins but we did stop for lunch about 2 miles offshore of ventnor for i think around 40mins or so.
went all the round (clockwise) a couple of weeks ago, cus i hadnt done it before. Didn't exactly time myself as i was having a good look at all the new scenery no it was very interesting!
pretty calm most of the way until i got to st catherines point whereupon it kicked up a bit because of the extremely strong tides that day.
would be interesting to do a timed run...
where's the official start finish line if there is one?
went all the round (clockwise) a couple of weeks ago, cus i hadnt done it before. Didn't exactly time myself as i was having a good look at all the new scenery no it was very interesting!
pretty calm most of the way until i got to st catherines point whereupon it kicked up a bit because of the extremely strong tides that day.
would be interesting to do a timed run...
where's the official start finish line if there is one?
I'd guess the likely official start would be the RYS start line at Cowes.
went all the round (clockwise) a couple of weeks ago, cus i hadnt done it before. Didn't exactly time myself as i was having a good look at all the new scenery no it was very interesting!
pretty calm most of the way until i got to st catherines point whereupon it kicked up a bit because of the extremely strong tides that day.
would be interesting to do a timed run...
where's the official start finish line if there is one?
We used a buoy of egypt point. Interesting about St Catherines as we stuffed it twice (done the whole of RB8 without ) Probablly backed off to much, may of gone over the top of the stange waves that occur there if we kept the speed up.
I make it 48.9nm so you must have been doing over 50 knots Average speed Cookee..
Hmmm I don't think I will beat that in my rib. Perhaps we could run some classes based on Length and HP
I think the race distance is actually a bit more than that - the fastest one we did we were hitting 70mph all the way round the South side of the island and we were within 1/2 an mph of another boat, very thrilling!
either Yarmouth, Ventnor or Cowes
no it was very interesting!
