Long night
Snellevliet
Fri 21 Jun 2019 12:42
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With today being the longest day of the year, here
another update.
We had a pretty rough night.
Yesterday we continued sailing the spinnaker we had set
out the night before. We changed to the medium spinnaker during the day and we
continued eating the miles away.... at least that's how it felt.
10 kts cruising and peaks over 14 kts were just
awesome.
After the pizza we dropped the medium spi and we set up
the heavy spi.
Great choice as wind increased to 20 - 22 kts and we
could maintain our speed without the fear of damaging something, going in to the
night, with the predicted rain.
Eventually the wind speed and direction changed and had
to wake Emiel from his dream-comfortzone to help get the spi down.
Just after the drop wind increased 25+ kts, only from the wrong
direction.
After having sorted out, we are a few hours further. A
message from the organisers came in that our tracking device does not transmit.
Of course now the wind is harder, the sails are a mess, it is raining and we are
trying to do our navigation. Bad timing as always...The tracking device had a
reset and we reveived confirmation that is back in "modus
operandi".
Our feeling is that we moved up pretty good and are
breaking our heads on going either north or east of the rumbline. Any how the
heavy spi is back up and are just above the rumbline, hoping that this wind will
stay. We are located before a low pressure system that provides wind further
away the center. Keep our fingers crossed that the center won't hit
us.
Day 4 might provide the gap between the leaders and the
pack, for us another 810 nautical miles to go.
Spirits here are well, being tired is the main key and
hard to catch up on sleep.
Boat is doing fine, besides a couple of bruises we too
and keep and eye on us!
Snelle Vliet, out
Jan
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