Furia - Resuming hand steering

Good morning,

Throughout the day of December 1st and during the following night we resumed hand steering on Furia because of confused (though not big) swell and wind shifts. Tiller steering though it has its own benefits, is not appropriate for keeping precise course while on broad reach to dead run spinnaker sailing. It is tiresome as well. I left this hard job to the more skilful sailors onboard Furia, Mihail and Dian.

There will be freshening of the wind during the following 2-3 days. For us it is much more important what would be the waves pattern. Nevertheless, our mood is up with Furia eating on a regular diet the remaining miles to Santa Lucia.

Rumen