through the gate and snatch some points up with it. The wind is is up to 30 knots true and the waves are big!! It's been an eventful night with only
really skip, 4 watch leaders and a couple of otheres helming in the dark under these conditions so it made for some long stints on the wheel for us. My
shoulders and arms are feeling it already after all the light wind stuff since australia!
I woke in my bunk this morning wondering who the heck was on the helm and what the hell they were doing as i was thrown from side to side in my bunk, Where
they tacking or not?? What way did i need to ajust my bunk to get back to sleep! Could soon hear Emil's voice shouting out commands though and chaos was
managed. I found out later we had lost our working yankee sheet due so some sort of chafe. Then while trying to sort that out by tacking i understand they
lost the halyard and then the number 1 reefing line snapped too. By the time we made it on watch things had been sorted and we hoisted the yankee 3 then
had the 'pleasant' job of flaking the yankee 2 down stairs in the tiny saloon and sleeping quaters.
The conditions have made their mark already I've also been playing medic this morning dishing out sea sickness meds, taking care of a laceration to someones
head when they got hit by the grinder handle and dosed up someone else and helped them to bed when they went flying across the gap between the galley and
saloon, landing on thier tail bone.
Not looking forward to checking out my bunk. I know there is a decent leak into my lockers so really hope my dry bags work!! But the guy that sleeps below
me reakons he was getting wet from above so they may be so full it's slopping out the front and into my bunk!! Wish me luck!!
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