Third Day at sea

This was a rough two days! I am sitting at the helm on my 6-9pm shift writing. Finally able to look at my phone as I was feeling sea sick yesterday. The weather has calmed although we are still around 22knots of wind.
The gust got up to 39 knots yesterday and the swells were about 8-10feet. It was nasty! Today much better and I got a few hours sleep during the day.
This Morning after doing a walk around, where lots had shifted due to the violent rolling of the boat all night, we decided to get rid of the Gudgeon, so I unceremoniously threw it overboard.
Tonight we have 1 reef in the main and 80% jib. It will be a much calmer night, and after this shift, I have the night off! The auto helm noise is beside our head in the aft cabin, and very loud. Reminds me of trying to sleep in a hospital! However, I downloaded some music and use that and headphones to lull me to sleep.Les mer