Halfway there and defects

At 2 in the morning we‘ve passed our halfway point at 😃 1400 nautical miles. I‘m happy about that, but man, another 1400 to go. I have to keep ot together.

3 days after last bucket shower. This is nice to be clean again.

What a great sailing day. Average 6.8 knots. Toospeed over 7.4 for over an hour. The do it yourself rigging works like a charm. The the shock in the evening. the genua-fall - the rope who lifts rhe sail up to the top breaks. The sail is flapping in the wind and our ship looks like a person with its pants down. We need to take the sail down. It tears on th top and destroys something in the rolling mechanism. The sail completely falls to pieces. We‘re completely shocked. The food was still on the table as we had ro act. Lifevests on. Tie in the lifebelts and 3 go on the frontdeck of the ship. We have to ve careful that the beating sail doesn’t hit us with its heavy corners and carabiner hook. Thn a part dmfalls into the water and we need to make shure nothing is caught under the boat or in the propeller

Our skipper Urs stays cool and we rigg the mainsail to go on.

155nm is our best day. And to celebrate that we open a coconut.

I cooked some awesome pasta and Hansjörg some rubbery gurken-salad.Weiterlesen