Yesterday we figured out a new watch system where we all could have a decent time to sleep. That wasn't easy with a crew of 5 and 4 beds... that is one for me and 3 for the others.. captains privilege :-). Anyway it took some puzzling but it worked and we all got 8 hours of sleep!
That was really nice and we all were very happy with it.
The night was quite comfortable, we made some progress although the wind is still from the North. This morning I downloaded new gribfiles and they looked very promising. Today we'll have very light winds... light enough to motorsail in the right direction and into the area with Westerly winds.
It were light winds indeed we motorsailed with the autopilot in charge.
When Jantine woke up at around 11 fresh and completely rested she suggested to reorganize the stuff we have to eat and drink.
It turned out into a total clean up, in a way you could never do with real wind. Very good Jantine!!
We started after lunch and all worked together cleaning, trashing, repairing and stuff and by 4 pm the whole boat looked again as we were about to leave :-)
In the mean time the wind had backed and now we can start to really sail again. If the wind freshens a bit more we can set the gennoa and kill the engine.
So far we only could make a 450 or so Nm leaving us another 1100 Nm to go, meaning we probably won't reach Scheveningen next weekend ….
Well, we'll just have to wait and see. Sofar we all enjoy the trip and a day or so longer is not a problem :-)
We lezen mee, fijn Ron dat je ons zo op de hoogte houdt en als trotse ouders lezen we over Jantine!!!
BeantwoordenVerwijderenHier wakkert de wind aan, dus hij komt er aan!!!
Ook nog leuk als jullie er even door heen zitten, om de beurt spreekwoorden en gezegdes aan elkaar rijgen!
Tot snel, Els.