It means a lot of time steering and not much sleep.īe careful if you don't have sea experience. There are no stops between Liverpool and Azores. It's nice to take fresh fruit and vegetables, but those won't last long.
If you're not at half way and you loose sails, you can always return on engine (remember that engines can also fail). Take supplies that will last at least twice the amount of time you calculated for the trip. I did this type of travel taking at least enough gas to make 60%~75% trip on engine. The sea is very unpredictable though and you may end spending more for unforeseen reason. If you did more than 50% you move to the destination. If you did less than half way and you have an emergency you return.
The logical would be to take gas to make 50% of the trip on engine. Get all the experience you can on sea sailing before departure. This value is only nice to use if you're sitting on a bar with friends drinking beer or rum :) and talking about sea sailing. I've seen boats perform better, but with highers risk (full sails, with fast winds) and a lot slower up to negative speeds (speed relative to ground) when you get no wind and you sail against a stream. This is a reasonable speed for a sailing cruise boat.
You should check the dominant wind and direction on the route you want and their average speed on the time of year you're going to travel.Ĭonsidering those, your sail boat efficiency and the most likely point of sail you're going to use (don't forget you will be making more miles if sailing against the wind), give all these some safety margins, and you can make a more accurate estimation.Īs a very, very, very weak rule of thumb you can use 4-5 Knots (4-5 nautical miles per hour) for the calculation. You can be lucky and get a nice 20 Knots wind, or unlucky having 0 Knots or worse 30 knots or above. The duration of a crossing depends of your boat and luck with the weather. I am assuming you don't have much experience at sea by the question.