The Pacific is like a box of chocolates....
Skye Blue sailing
Stephen and Malene
Wed 7 Jun 2023 18:43
|
Day 5,
Have not quite decided with ourselves which is better:
1) going in a straight line, motoring, in full sunshine, worrying about when we
will run out of fuel, or 2) flying along half way in control in some sort of
ever changing direction, which is almost where we want to go, but not quite?
Inclined towards the latter. At least we are going fuellessly.
Last night was the latter option. The never ending
squall where it rained constantly (after the first heavy rain had to somehow
figure out how to dump more than 200 liters of water collected in the
reefed main over less than half an hour, preferably NOT in the cockpit! I'm
stubborn but I'm not Pippi Longstocking :D) We figured out how to avoid that
situation happening, as it kept on raining. The wind seems to change instantly:
one moment you are flying along in a F6, then the wind drops just to pick up
while you are looking away for a second and changes 90 degrees so you
have now crash tacked.
Anyways, squalls are squalls and if you have a non stop
chain of them coming at you for 8 hours straight, you deal with it. It's like a
box of chocolates.
All well and quiet now (still wet though). Stephen
hiding under a brolly upstairs.
4:23.1513N 85:08.3905W |
