I have to mention how normal life can be on board. We have a dishwasher, clothes washer and the ability to make water and recharge our batteries. Showers can be an issue for someone my size when the shower stall height is 6’1” and I’m 6’4”in a 3 foot diameter cylinder. Do the math, it can be confining, especially when you add a 4 foot roll to the waves. Given everything though, life on a boat works pretty well!
We are experiencing dying winds and the direction coming around behind us this caused us to lose speed with our current sail configuration. During my stint at the helm I asked Ian if there was another configuration we could put up to help our situation? Ian perked up we could fly dual head sails! With that down came the staysail, down came the Genoa, down came the mainsail. We rummaged trough the laserette(sp?) to find another light weight head sail. Putting it up was quite the ordeal, but we did get it done and we are flying 2 headsails! It is amazing how adjustable the sailboat is.
The night was truly beautiful and peaceful. The stars were brilliantly visible and the moon came out from behind clouds as it rose. I had the midnight to 2am, and we had a nice gentle roll with 16 – 18nm off the starboard aft quarter at 165 degrees (that’s for you Bjork!). We were flying twin headsails doing about 7nm with bearing of 005.
It’s all good.