31:30.18N 54:31.368W
SV Eleonora
Michael A. Andronov
Thu 7 Jun 2018 02:15
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UTC 0153
958.4 nm gone...
Am I closer to the Azores ? Technically --
yes. But with the current weather -- the course is unknown, and the
distance too...
At some point, I will reach something, for sure. ;-)
It has been a tough day -- desperate searching for
the wind, and to keep the boat moving. I've been changing the sails all
day, in attempt to find the optimum configuration... No, I did not
find one... And again, we are rushing more North then East -- since
the windless zone is in front of us -- that is a forecast -- and we have
to move North ( 35N more specific ) as soon as possible... But
the present wind is very light, and from the wrong direction ( for going
North.. ) Puzzels, puzzels and compromises...
The boat decided to give me full day of training
. A lot has been learned :
--- putting down gennaker, which decided to wrap itself
around the forestay... ( Of course, the only real puff of the wind
happened at that particular moment ;
-- the bottom of the gennaker sock -- is a
heavy fibreglass ring... When it is flying around by the boat move -- you
better keep your head down, or you will be knocked down, as
miinum... or change the form of your head -- as maximum... ;-)
-- worknig with poll;
-- moving sails is the bags...
And then the night fall down -- and it was a night
training -- setting back the gennaker again, because no way to generate the
proper speeed...
In short, I'm a bit exausted and tired... ;-)
But besides that -- everything is OK, the boat is
moving... I'm going to watch the stars...
Be back soon,
M.
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