44 knots is a lot! 26:42S165:11E
Salsa af Stavsnas
Ellinor Ristoff Staffan Ehde
Sat 6 Jun 2015 20:08
This morning I woke up at 3.30, the boat was
behaving different and the sound was alarmily loud.
I came up to the cockpit and found hell was loose.
We were doing 8-9 knots in 33 knots of wind.
And on top of that Ellinor could not do anything
since she was holding on to the bimini, it had come loose in the strong
wind.
If she would let go we would have a kite and a mess
of tubes etc.
To make things more complicated we had the
spinacker boom poled out since last night. Now it was not poling out anything
as
we were running on the jibe.
First thing I changed course to downwind and took
in the entire main. No need for that and things calmed down a lot.
Then we decided on how to take it down. After that
the wind went up to 44 knots! Severe gale almost storm condition.
But we had to bring up the spinacker pole as we
could easily see the waves building up.
We decided what to do in the cockpit and then took
off on the pitch black deck.
Now the sun has come up and we can see the waves
that have built up 3-4 meters, so we are harnessed even in cockpit
now.
It is very cold and damp, far from the nice and
warmth we have had for a year! Feels like sailing in Scandinavia.
All well on board but we are very tyred!
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