Hanse Sailor - Bad with the Good

“26:46,17N 24:48,50W”

Day three saw the sea sickness come to the front with 24 knot winds and heavy waves hitting us all over the place . We say the mistakes come to the forefront when someone decided to use the baby wipes for toilet paper and block the forward toilet , spending a few hour trying to unblock that made even the skipper head for the cockpit . However

The wind stayed going for 24 hour , the waves decreased and we started our attach on Calypso and Mortan only to hear the bad news of Calypso loosing their steering and making the hard decision to turn back after consulting with La Contenta who kindly stood by and made sure that everything was ok with her. Now only Montan with a crew member having a fan club here on our yacht we perused them only to loose them from Ais. we set sail for La Contenta. great night broad reaching at 8 to 10 knots , fantastic night sailing gets us well on our way , The morning brings us new winds but more easterly making the planned route not possible so we headed up and stuck up the spinnaker for a few hours of 15 to 20 knot run before agreeing that we wanted it for lighter sailing later so down it came . Everyone recovered from the past 2 days and we are going to decide if to gibe and head south after this morning weather forecast .

 

Andy