Day 10: Somewhere over the rainbow ….there lies a boat without a spinnaker wrapped round its forestay. 

This morning was another sunny day with squalls going through but we decided to risk the Code Zero in the “Storm Zero” sail configuration. One squall provide a lovely rainbow which ended  on exactly the course we need to sail to reach Grenada so for a while it was ‘follow that rainbow’ . 

 

Then at about 10am with the zero flying the wind dropped to 14 kts and we went for the big unravelling. The good news is it worked !!! We now have the S3 back in its bag - surprisingly totally undamaged. We basically took it stage by stage carefully tying up the sail as a big sausage to stop any parts flying off. Then we unwound it round and round the forestay until with a whoosh the rest of it slide down on my head and in the water . Hurrahs and high fives all round. We also have the uphaul back , it looks like it’s had a perm as it’s all curly from where it has been so tightly wound round the forestay. 

We spent the rest of the day practising with different Jibs to see how much we can take. We started with the small j4  jib but have worked ourselves up to the big J2. We could have the spinnaker back up but for the moment it’s been sent to the naughty step to consider its behaviour. 

We’ve just had a little “cocktail” of fruit juice. Salami and pickles to celebrate the fact we are now half way to Grenada.