[byronbb]

If you have stumbled upon tickets for a crossing with a commercial cruise ship, sailing across the Atlantic will likely take 6-8 days of sailing (depending on cruise of course) in open sea without any breaks.

[businessbroke832]

First and foremost,if you are sailing across the Atlantic in a small boat, your passage time will be longer.

[zipslack]

Also, it is advised to make sure that you have sufficient front sails in the lower size-range. Normally, if you buy a used sailboat, it will be suited with a storm-jib as old as the boat itself.

[r1b]

Thirty-seven days later, they tied up in Falmouth, England, after a voyage during which they suffered many engine problems, bad weather and leaking fuel tanks. Still, they averaged 5 knots for the crossing with a little help from the auxiliary sails.

[nadav001]

In 1902, William Newman decided that an Atlantic crossing would be a good way to promote his marine engine. That was just 15 years after the first-ever motorboat had hit the water. He loaded the 37-foot Abbiel Abbot Low to the gills with more than 700 gallons of kerosene to fuel the 10-hp, single-cylinder motor. Together with his 16-year-old son, he set out from New York.

[Rio88]

Designer Jim Wynne, who developed the first modern sterndrive, was co-driver of a 22-foot outboard-powered boat that set out to cross the Atlantic in 1958 with a freighter that supplied fuel, to show that even smaller boats could make the journey. Twice, the Coronet Explorer had to be lifted on board the freighter in bad weather before arriving at Newport, Rhode Island, so technically, his was not a complete crossing.

[snrlx]

Actual Encountered Weather here

[whitewillows55]

Next on my list of anxieties was any mechanical breakdown. While this is always a concern, it becomes more critical when you are 900 miles from the nearest landfall. A fatal mechanical failure, such as a propeller coming off or a broken shaft, could cost us the boat and endanger our lives.

[Innarita]

Crossing the Atlantic Ocean is like crisscrossing the United States from San Francisco to New York, then up to Minneapolis, and making only two stops, traveling at less than 7 knots!

[mati]

I had just finished reading Fatal Storm, The Inside Story of the Tragic Sydney-Hobart Race, plus Surviving the Storm, by Steve and Linda Dashew. Thus, weather was my chief source of anxiety and the least controllable variable for the trip. more

[sharp]

Checking oil levels while under way was cause for some concern, as our old Gardner can use up to a quart or two of oil per day. I tried checking fluids at full cruising speed but had some trouble getting an accurate reading. I finally decided to bring the engine to idle once a day and take an oil level reading at that time. It turns out this was much easier said than done. With the slowed boat rolling and pitching in 8-foot seas, the oil level in the Gardner would go from full to empty with each roll. My solution was to watch the inclinometer that I had installed in the engine room to balance fuel. When the inclinometer's bubble came to zero degrees roll, I quickly jabbed the dipstick into the engine and checked the reading. Several attempts were necessary to ensure consistency. I found the oil level reading, with the engine running, was consistently 3 quarts lower than when checking the oil with the engine shut down.

[L29Ah]

Despite our previous major setback Laura and I with no crew have sailed our magnificent boat all the way from Holland to Helgoland then down the English channel, across the bay of Biscay, then down the west coast of Europe ie Spain and Portugal then across to Morocco then across to the Canary islands down to Senegal and Gambia, then back up to the Cape Verde islands and then across the Atlantic Ocean.

[planetPlosion]

We had to feed "Hercules" our 330 HP QSL9 Cummins engine 3848 litres of diesel to do the crossing. The crossing was made so easy for Laura and myself by this truly trusty sea going trawler with her 2.54 A/B ratio, her cruising stern and deep cruising keel and large airfoil rudder making her stable and safe in all the various seaways we encountered on our crossing. We made the crossing with only the two of us aboard i.e no crew, unassisted and as a single boat. here

[Prado]

Laura and I have successfully crossed the Atlantic Ocean in our magnificent Selene 49ft ocean trawler Hakuna Matata.

[bitcoin_pl]

The crossing was made from Mindelo, Sao Vincente the Cape Verde islands to Brazil which took us 8 days.

[joechip]

I also cannot find any evidence of ANY Selene Trawler crossing the ocean as of this date 08/6/2014 so in fact then we are not only the first Selene 49 to cross the Atlantic, but are the first Selene trawler ever to cross the Atlantic ocean on her own bottom, period.