Yesterday when I said ‘I'm sure there is more to follow', it was more of a off the cuff remark, I actually didn’t expect anything else to go wrong. Well couldn’t of been more right.

The rest of the story comes only covers us up 1900hrs, and hopefully what comes next in the blog will be the end of it because I’m bloody tired (that was the polite version)

 

To set the scene everything was fine and dandy after we furled the genoa and sorted that little problem, then we eat breakfast drank tea/coffee, basking in our self importance as we were sailing in the right direction already trying to make our minds up about which bar we were going to have a couple of shandy’s in on Thursday evening when we arrived in Eden. This self belief we call it I’m sure it has being called ‘cocky’ is probably why men will never win the battle of the sexes. Truth be known the majority don’t even know its a war and enjoy a simple, happy, and totally unaware life.

 

....and back to the point, we decided that  we jump into action and prepare for the worst and took the main down to run mouse line to run the reefing line from the first reefing point and the 2nd and 3rd, upon hoisting the main the halyard broke and there is no safe way of running the halyard back into in mast as the next halyard is only 3/4 of the way up the mast so we will do that when we get to Eden. So undaunted we managed to use the 3/4 height to hoist to main sail up and then put the 1st reef in to make up for the lack of height in the mainsail. this work fine and while we were all patting ourselves on our back we went to carry on with our trip, the wind had moved on so now we are low on course and heading south well to fast to be mentioned,  basically the whole afternoon the wind has **ck us around we tacked twice and ended sailing in circles I think, well I’m pretty sure we passed the same cloud formation twice.....(anyhow they all look the same!!!) So we decided to motor straight towards Eden what could possibly go wrong. I’ll tell you we, started to furl  the head sail up and yes you guessed it the barrel of the roller furler had lost it’s nuts!! so again James wen t to the bow to reroll the furler (this time with clothes on!) only this time the Allen screw had, had enough and decided to jump overboard, ungrateful bastard it was getting a free lift. We found some machine screws well stole them off a couple of winches and all was again with the roller furler. We are now motoring toward Eden where we will repair the odd couple of thing that have gone wrong.

 

To be honest the big star of the journey so far has got to have been  Leigh who can always be relied on to provide the very best quality food in the worst possible situations.

We are getting 5 star food in cramped conditions well done.

 

Last night sailing was interesting the seas got a little bigger and were around 1 to 2 meters, it was quite lumpy but once we have put a reef in the night went pretty uneventfully, we have had more of the same this morning but with the sun out it doesn’t seem as bad, the genoa is about 40% out and this has help settle the boats motion with the waves and we are having a ball. Let keep our fingers crossed that this stays with us for another couple of day. Ok now its really time to get some rest. In about one hours time we will have less than 500nms before we reach Eden and beer!!