Not a great day insofar as speed, managed to clock off 168 nm, wind
had died off a little. As we don't yet have a spinnaker pole on
Reverie we were unable to sail dead down wind with the main sail out
to leeward and the jib poled out to windward (wing on wing), so we
sheeted the jib through the end of the boom and sailed just with the
jib, slow going but it was low effort sailing. Even managed to get a
few episodes of Seinfeld in.
But overall a quiet day, most exciting thing was Jo almost
getting hurled through the perspex shower door whilst having a
shower and washing her hair - one hand holding on, one hand
lathering up, need one more hand to turn the tap on! While all this
was going on Jason was fast asleep on the couch!
We guess we could have put the smaller spinnaker up or played around
with the sails some more, but as it was the start of the third day
we just couldn't be bothered!, now that's lazy!
While we were in Almerimar in Spain, we picked up a second hand
"Aquagen" it's a water generator and has proved to be a great unit,
making our net power consumption while sailing at around 1-2amps.
Yesterday unfortunately one of the "blades" broke off ( it has a
small propeller on a long shaft that it towed about 16m behind the
boat) So we were forced to put the smaller set of blades on. With
the smaller blades we have about 1/3 of the power produced! So we
are forced to now run the motor a little more each day to power up,
very annoying. When we get into Saint Marteen we will get a few sets
of the bigger blades.
Day 4: Position @8:00am UTC 24-34N, 022-19.6W Course 242M
Light day today, we have about 12knots of wind. Will have to make a
strong effort to get the boat speed up today, Looks like a Spinnaker
day for sure. Seas are starting to drop off so we hopefully will
have a good smooth day.
The weather is getting warmer, sea temp is up to 26 degrees!!! No
cloud and so far no squalls! Just clear blue skies.
13:30 Day Run was 154nm, um.. things seem to be slowing down,
maybe the real reason is that we are just to lazy to change sails!
Have the kite up now are moving along quite well, sitting at 8
knots plus managed to hit 10.4 over the water as well which was
nice.
Still no fish though!, will try a few different lures through the
day to see if that makes any difference.
J&J
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