Day 6 (yesterday, 26th of Nov) on the ARC became a a quite eventful day on
the Hanse Sailor.
In the morning the batteries went flat, possibly due to too spoiled crew
members consuming too much.
Around 10-ish the wind slowed down which made most of us wanting to take a
swim in the nice (and strong) sun light (sun factor 50 factor was applied).
Quite nice it was. We felt brave so no “nobby watch” was appointed (nobby =
small creature pealing off skin and flesh).
During noon, assessing the downloaded ARC emails and grib weather info,
having the gennaker up together with the main, mr Neptune made a prank to
totally change wind direction and swooped the gennaker on the other tac making
it caught in a cleat like device on the lower spreader (what function it had
there everybody wondered), resulting in 70% of the clew seam being ripped. Down
the gennaker went and we started to repair the damage with needle and
thread.
Just before dinner (pasta Bolognese plus a veggie sauce) we stopped the
sewing of sail repair to watch the sun go down in the ocean with great
anticipation to see if we would see a “green flash”. And we saw it! At least me
and Graham while Stefan (from Norway a.k.a. “Chris”), Stefan and Craig looked
away at the second it appeared. Had I pressed the correct button on my camera I
would have caught the beautiful sequence. Instead I got the cheering and curses
from the crew afterwards.
Johan, crew on Hanse
Sailor