We woke up to a BEAUTIFUL morning only to realize we were being headed off our planned course by miles! After a quick gybe and a shake out of our nightly reef we decided it was time to finally drop in our fishing lines. Just as we was wondering what we should eat for lunch…
A whole pod of dolphins swam with us for a while, was amazing! Really hoping we see them at night when they look like torpedos with the bioluminescence. Watermaker rejected 0% yesterday and produced the full 100 liters per hour of water!!! back to normal it seems. Wooohooo! Fingers crossed it stays that way. We…
Winds and swell keeps easing and for the first time it felt like the conditions we experienced when we did the pacific crossing 11 years ago. That time we had a 38ft monohull with a monitor Windvane and no watermaker, so this time we are a bit spoilt but it is debatable if we have…
Watermaker kind of works again! The boys finally had their long overdue shower and everything smelled fresh as daisies again. For dinner we defrosted another one of Shanti’s (Chet’s dad) amazing curries, thanks Shanti! Without you we would be poor starving sailors. There was quite some action happening on my night watch when a sailboat…
Tense times with the water maker today. After an initial good run, we noticed that the water maker kept cutting out. This caused us to pause our lavish boat showers while everyone had use use the one salt water toilet…. The tension was high and the odour was thick, so much so, that Jessy mistakenly…
We always pick good weather windows to ensure we have a easy start to a long passage but with the ARC we had to leave with a forecast of 23-28 knots, 30 knots gusts and bad swell. We were very conservative with 3 reefs and the main which was lucky because we got 30-40 knots…