Friday 15 August 2014
Day 6 and come sunrise we agreed we’d hoist the spinnaker pole and try goose-winging. That notorious sailing method of pinning your main sail to one side and poling out the genoa to the other side. So Tom had to wake Susie barely an hour asleep with a “Sorry to disturb you but…” It’s hard…
Wednesday 13 August 2014
Day 5 Tuesday dawned and we had wind but we also had 2m confused seas on the beam. If we had to list the three ways of sailing we don’t particularly enjoy it would be: 1. Upwind in open seas with waves 2. Goose-winging dead downwind(sail on each side of the boat) causing the boat…
Tuesday 12 August 2014
Day 4 the winds didn’t last that long and we yet again had to do our procedure of dropping the parasailor and bringing in the water generator and getting the engine on. Mornings are quieter now as more sleep is taken to compensate for sleep lost. Onboard we have a long range radio (technically called…
Monday 11 August 2014
Saturday’s log showed we had sailed 90 nautical miles. An average day is 120 nautical miles so that goes down as a slow day! But who’s complaining when the sun is rising and a full moon is setting in synchronisation and giving the most lovely of three hundred and sixty degree skies of salmon pink,…
Sunday 10 August 2014
Day 2 Saturday 9th and some lumpy seas combined with the light winds were making it hard work for the poor parasailor (our downwind spinnaker sail). It sits there trying its best to bulge out and power us forward but most of the time it’s collapsing as a wave hits the boat before it refills…
Sunday 10 August 2014
Adina finally fled the nest of easy life in the Society Islands and being stuck in Bora Bora at just before 9am local time on Friday. We’d had two weeks of getting stuck so it was good to finally be on our way. Traditionally we keep it simple on Day 1 to help our bodies…