Winds have been fairly light so far.  This has allowed the re-establishment of boat and sail handling in a non-stressful way.  In the latter part of the night the wind changed direction and strengthened to force 6.  This was sending us in the wrong direction and with a bit too much sail up.  Breakfast was delayed until the main was rolled down to the level of the upper spreaders, and we had tacked and reduced the jib size to match the shortened main.

 

There was slight thickening of the fresh milk at breakfast.  It tastes fine, but this is probably the last day of the fresh stuff.  Moving on to the low fat UHT milk that Fiona helped source (not too easy to find in Nova Scotia) is likely to be needed tomorrow.  The chicken (bought cooked and chilled) is still hanging on in there.  It contributed to a very tasty chicken curry yesterday evening, and will probably do a sandwich lunch and another cooked supper today. The Canadians don't seem to stock tins of meaty stuff in sauce as in the UK. Once the chicken is gone, tinned meat will need to be added to the sauces in jars.  Marks and Spencer hot lamb curry and M&S tinned steak in gravy are just distant memories of UK sailing holidays. 

 

Another problem at breakfast was finding a rope tangled around the upper part of the mast.  This turned out to be the spare main halliard. The shackle had worked undone, but amazingly the pin had not fallen out fully.  I managed to get hold of the lower end of it , tie on another thin rope, and partially unwind the mess.  It's now lashed down and waiting for better conditions to (hopefully) unwind the remaining part.  Before setting off, when Neil and I were fettling Hamsi, I can remember thinking that there was one shackle that we had not bound to prevent undoing.  Now it's clear which one it was.

 

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