Well this week I’ve passed my day skipper theory exams, which mostly involves using some big charts, a compass and divider and plotting bearings, headings, waypoints, Fixes, water tracks, ground tracks, finding out estimated positions, tidal streams, tidal depths, chart datum, drying heights and… well, you get the picture – its quite a lot to take in but I passed both exams with only one, slightly wrong question (it was a badly written question!!) so go me!
So naturally I’ve just drawn up a course to Ibiza, and, well without even looking at the tidal streams I’ve figured out it would take 15 days of non-stop sailing just to travel the 1770nm that it would take to get there! It could be less, as that was a course that hugged the coastline, rather than sailing across the vast empty space that is the Bay of Biscay (doing that would make it just 1460 nm) so maybe somewhere like a 400 mile trip to La Rochelle would be a bit more appropriate/possible..?
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