Threeships
Shaun and Ainur Weaver
Fri 30 May 2014 09:18
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0/05 10.30GMT
17 12S 077 24E
A busy day in the Indian ocean. Light ESE winds at
dawn so we shook out a reef and ran with twin headsails, by 11.00 it had backed
E so we took the opportunity to mend a small tear in the head sail by sending
Toby up to clew height sitting on the spinnaker pole while the sail was reefed.
He enjoyed that and did good job so we poled out the head sail and had
lunch. Then the wind veered and we took the pole down. Then it increased so
we put another reef in the main to make it easier on the wind vane. Then it went
up to 20 knots so we furled the head sail and now we're bowling along at 7.5
knots on a beam reach with a 3m cross swell under double reefed main and
staysail - and while this was going on Fi cooked a batch of ginger nuts and made
yoghurt - so all's well on board
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