How long would it take to sail a boat from America to England?

Question

How long would it take to sail a boat from America to England?

Answer 1

The current record is about 4 days, 17.5 hours, held by the multi-hull Playstation.  IIRC it was set in 2001.  So it will take somewhere between that and infinity.

Answer 2

3 years if you do it right.

Answer 3

the boats mentioned are high tech state of the art racing machines with professional crews and unlimited budgets.

The answer for the rest of us is...a typical cruising boat of 25-40 feet averages 100-125 miles a day.

If you take the north route, up past New England and Nova Scotia ( look out for icebergs!) and south of Iceland, you get a1.5 knot boost from the Gulf Stream so 125-175 a day is possible.

2500 odd miles from NYC to Cornwall....figure 25 days at least; 50% margin is 40 days.

Better weather..but less consistant winds...is NYC to Bermuda to the Azores then up to England........that's about six weeks with the port stops involved

Answer 4

It would depend on the speed that the craft maintains over water. You can take the distance from the two points and divide it by the speed and that will give you the amount of time it would take.

Answer 5

NOPE way out of date.

Franck Cammas' maxi-trimaran Groupama 3 passed south of The Lizard at 0045 on Tuesday morning, setting a new Transatlantic record of 4 days 3 hours, 57 minutes 54 seconds. That's an average speed of 28.65 knots over the 2,925-mile course. She also becomes the first boat to cross the Atlantic in under 100 hours.

The 31.5m green giant broke the record set by Bruno Peyron's 36.8m catamaran Orange 2 by 4 hours 26 minutes. She also set a new record for distance covered in 24 hours - a remarkable 794 miles - within 30 hours of the start off New York's Ambrose Light.