Thread: GIS handling characteristics

Nope. It's far quicker through the Southern Ocean, hugging the Antarctic Coast, and I really recommend the 12000m altitude option. The apparent wind at 1000km/hr helps make the trip so much quicker

Originally Posted by Boatmik

Howdy Ian,

Wanna come over to visit OZ in the same way?

The Tasman is only a little rougher.

MIK

I'd prefer something a little bigger than the standard Goat - how about a version stretched to 6m/20ft, with a Yawl/Ketch rig on it?

Colin Quincey did the Tasman NZ - OZ rowing for 63 days in a dory exactly this size in 1977. This was before satelite EPIRBs and GPS and portable watermakers.



How about going the other way - you build a 6 metre GISX in Adelaide, we do a shake down cruise across Bass Strait to Tasmania, then a quick run Fortescue Bay to Milford Sound? Just under a thousand nautical miles across the Tasman so should go in 10 days...


Ian

I'll take a rain cheque on that!

The Tasman Sea is notorious for eating little boats.

MIK

Originally Posted by Boatmik

The Tasman Sea is notorious for eating little boats.
MIK

I quite agree, I've sat on a beach next to my sea kayak looking at the south Tasman/Southern Ocean, listening to the weather forecast on the radio:
"Storm force south westerlies are expected to moderate to gale force towards the end of the week"

It was an impressive effort by Colin Quincey in that little dory back in 1977, even more so Andrew McAuley, or would have been if he'd made it the last 30 miles.

Ian