This will be our third raid. I’ve sailed since I was 4 years old on an opti.
Reasonably experienced racer but still learning about the whole seamanship thing. Anchoring still stresses me out and I’ve been known to misread the tide table.
The Boat
The Diam 24 is a 24-foot trimaran. It was designed in France by VPLP Design and built by French builder ADH Inotec
The Diam 24 is built for speed. It regularly exceeds 14 knots upwind in good breeze and can go much faster downwind under gennaker.
However… in August there’s usually no “good breeze”, so we will likely be drifting with the current, glued to the water, struggling to make it move with our paddles.
We camp onboard by putting a tent on the trampoline. This year, I’m hopping to add a hatch so we can actually store something inside!
This is what happens when you don’t wake up for the tide…