13 th day - more troubles

1200 nautical miles to go - a nm is about 1.8km.

More troubles during the night. A thunderstorm cell passes us. But as it is really dark you dont see it coming. The wind picks up - nice, more speed. The weind is too strong - sugar, we should have made the sails smaller while it wasn’t stormy. I was in bed sleeping when i heard the noise on deck. I just threw my lifevest on and ran up and got soaked right away in the horicontal rain. Hansjörg was just ahead if me and helped to reef the sails. The big noise i‘ve heard was when the boomm came loose and accidentally swang over and fell too hard into rmthe ropes.

Next morning we saw the damage. The big hit tore some parts and the mainsail had a tiny rip on the backside.Read more