Sailing to the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean 1500

Passage Summary


Night Heron en route to Tortola.

Here's a summary of our voyage, with statistics for each day. The time is Atlantic Standard Time, mileage is in nautical miles, and speed is in knots.

Voyage of *Night Heron*, November 2007
From Portsmouth, Virginia, to Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands
Day	Date	Time	Overall Values		Made-Good Values			Cumulative		Distance To Go
Day	Date	Time	Daily Miles	Daily Avg. Spd.	Daily Miles	Daily Avg. Spd.	Cum. Avg. Daily Miles	Overall Miles	Made-Good Miles	Distance To Go
1	11/04	08:40	-	-	-	-	-	0	0	1299
2	11/05	08:00	160	6.9	144	6.2	144	160	144	1155
3	11/06	08:40	116	4.7	98	4.0	121	276	242	1057
4	11/07	08:50	125	5.2	101	4.2	114	401	343	956
5	11/08	08:50	142	5.9	83	3.5	107	543	426	873
6	11/09	08:45	103	4.3	91	3.8	103	646	517	782
7	11/10	08:45	90	3.8	83	3.5	100	736	600	699
8	11/11	08:45	85	3.5	82	3.4	97	821	682	617
9	11/12	08:45	90	3.8	90	3.8	97	911	772	527
10	11/13	08:45	113	4.7	107	4.5	98	1024	879	420
11	11/14	08:45	93	3.9	80	3.3	96	1117	959	340
12	11/15	09:20	60	2.4	24	1.0	89	1177	983	316
13	11/16	09:00	68	2.9	47	2.0	86	1245	1030	269
14	11/17	08:45	93	3.9	91	3.8	86	1338	1121	178
15	11/18	09:00	83	3.4	83	3.4	86	1421	1204	95
16	11/19	09:00	86	3.6	85	3.5	86	1507	1289	10
16	11/19	12:00	11	-	10	-	-	1518	1299	0

15 days, 3 hours elapsed time
1518 miles overall, 100 miles/day average
1299 miles made-good, 86 miles/day average

In the next section, I'll talk about some of the problems we experienced.

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