Morgane of Sark - messy monday

Hi there, this is our log of day 11 at the Atlantic Ocean.

Today we were a bit tired. We didn’t sleep all that great. Last night was a bit messy with two squals and gusty winds; anywhere between 12 and 35 knots. A lot of rain again during the squal. We sailed most of the night only on our main and at “quiet” times we pulled our Genua partly out. The hardtop on our boat is very comfortable when the wind and waves are picking up and we always feel safe.

Waves have been increasing during the night and we kept rolling in our beds. From one side to the other. And back. And again..Finally, piled a bunch of pillows on both sides of the bed, against the slings to stabilize ourselves.

Must say that by now we do look forward to a straight 8 hour sleep in a non-moving bed!

We didn’t have our daily SSB chats with Pippin and High Cotton today. They also had some catching up to do on their sleep during the day.

All the boats we have communication with, have been busy last night with the squals and wind shifts. We heard some boats had gusts over 40 knots. We didn’t have that much. But, our windmeter doesn’t work that well. We can only see the “Apparent” wind.

Hope tonight will be a bit more relaxed, so we can sleep better when we are “off watch”

So today not too much going on. A lot of movement on the boat, so we took it easy. We all slept a some during the day as well. And had a huge salad for dinner.

Herco checks the rigging every day and we start the motor daily to check the cooling water. Today, no cooling water. Ahhh. He fixed it by pouring water in the weed pot. But, it’s definitely something we have to look into in Grenada. And we had the watermaker running today.

We had a good average speed today. Actually, we came 168 miles closer to Grenada in the last 24 hours.

In the the afternoon we reefed the main quite bit. And when night falls, we also reefed the jib.
Sailing on a reefed main and a reefed Genua right now. It slows us down a bit, but we like to able to manoeuvre easy at night if squals hit us again. Safety before speed!

So, current position is N 12* 00 811
W 48* 26.55
Cog 260 degrees
SOG 6,5 - 7,3 knots
Windspeed A 12 - 18 knots NE
Waves high 2,5 - 3 meters
We have sailed 1384 miles from Mindelo
And still 784 to go.

We are all still doing well. And we are so proud of Evy. She is doing great!

Xxx crew Morgane of Sark