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 :-)
zaterdag 28 juli 2012
July 27th, position 43°29.7826N; 24°27.608W
Since we tagged the wind didn't change much so we're still pointing some North of East .
According to the latest gribfiles we'll find some Westerly winds more North the plan is to tag again tomorrow. We'll probably have to motorsail through the center of the high but then we'll find the Westerlies hopefully.
Anyway, this trip is more a challenge not only in finding the best course and winds. Also in repairing all kind of little things. Yesterday the inverter stopped working... that could in fact not be the case since I bought that new in Horta. And, it wasn't. It turned out to be a short circuit... but where? All 220V outlets were fine and checking the cables on the breaker box didn't lead to anything. Luckily I also got a new small unit before I left last year so I can at least charge my laptop.
Then last night Marc noticed that the port lower spreader was wiggling...
hmm,...it's not supposed to do that. We decided to go up the mast next day to check the fittings.
The early this morning while furling out the gennoa a bit more, the halliard broke....
We got it down okay and furled out the staysail. I had to go up the mast anyway …
At around 8 it was a smooth-ish to climb up the mast. The halliard was broken and had fallen down the mast... end of the halliard. No big deal though, we can use the uphaul which we did.
The fitting of the spreader was okay. But two of the rivets to keep it in place were gone.
God thing I have all the stuff and tools to fix it but working half way up the mast mid Atlantic is not particularly my most favorite thing to do.
But, in the mean time the wind had backed a bit and we're steering a much better course and the weather is real nice and sunny :-)
According to the latest gribfiles we'll find some Westerly winds more North the plan is to tag again tomorrow. We'll probably have to motorsail through the center of the high but then we'll find the Westerlies hopefully.
Anyway, this trip is more a challenge not only in finding the best course and winds. Also in repairing all kind of little things. Yesterday the inverter stopped working... that could in fact not be the case since I bought that new in Horta. And, it wasn't. It turned out to be a short circuit... but where? All 220V outlets were fine and checking the cables on the breaker box didn't lead to anything. Luckily I also got a new small unit before I left last year so I can at least charge my laptop.
Then last night Marc noticed that the port lower spreader was wiggling...
hmm,...it's not supposed to do that. We decided to go up the mast next day to check the fittings.
The early this morning while furling out the gennoa a bit more, the halliard broke....
We got it down okay and furled out the staysail. I had to go up the mast anyway …
At around 8 it was a smooth-ish to climb up the mast. The halliard was broken and had fallen down the mast... end of the halliard. No big deal though, we can use the uphaul which we did.
The fitting of the spreader was okay. But two of the rivets to keep it in place were gone.
God thing I have all the stuff and tools to fix it but working half way up the mast mid Atlantic is not particularly my most favorite thing to do.
But, in the mean time the wind had backed a bit and we're steering a much better course and the weather is real nice and sunny :-)
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