it was a beautiful day although we were sailing a horrible course due to
a bad wind direction and at a terrible speed because we were also having
to cross a wind hole to the west of the Philipines.
By the time i woke up for watch at 1400hrs we were preparing to change
down to our yankee 2 as the wind had come up and we were on a much
better course although we did lose a couple of places but only 9 miles
behind the leaders.
In a matter of 2 hours we hanked on our Yankee 2, dropped the Y1,
hoisted the Y2, tacked, flaked the Y1 and stowed it away for the rest of
the race, moved the Y3 to a more accessable place, tacked again, and
took in a reef!!! I think it's safe to say the wind we've been waiting
for has arrived!
It has started to get dark earlier and earlier so the last few hours on
watch until 2000hrs have been in darkness. The waves are really picking
up and some have been pretty huge although probably nothing compared to
what is to come! I've just come off the helm at the end of watch with
my adrenaline pumping. We had a ture wind that gusted up to 30 knots at
times and i had all my weight hanging on the wheel to keep her down and
was still coming up 20 degrees! They guys on watch up top have just
dropped the stay sail so the boat has flattened out (relatively speaking)
so it will be slightly easier to launch myself into my top bunk and stay
there!
Yaaaaahooooooooo, lovin it!!!
Night
xx
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