Atlantic Crossing day 21 Getting closer!
Today was
supposed to be our arrival date according to our original plan. Isabelle made
the menu until today. Does that mean that we don’t have any food anymore?
Fortunately it doesn’t. We still have plenty but getting low on drinking
water.
Our
Watermaker has been fixed in
All day
we’ve had very light winds. So much so that our estimate arrival date on the
computer is being pushed to the 17th. Even with the Genaker and
Again it
was an exciting night. Under many shooting stars the squalls were all around and
dodging them was proving a good way to stay awake. We even saw the navigation
lights of two other sailing yachts behind us. So we are not alone anymore.
Early in
the morning Isabelle and Yannick heard a snap followed by a boom. She
immediately got me out of bed. Isabelle and I scrambled on deck. I was still
sleepy so it took a while to get my bearings. I started furling in the Jib
anyway. After a minute I understood the rope which holds the downhaul, preventer
and the jib sheet block snapped and the spinnaker boom was having a party of it
own. Easily fixed but it took some time to let the adrenaline subside before
turning in again.