12/10/2011

No bird droppings or squalls today but a strong breeze. That’s exactly what we are going for! The sky is still heavily clouded but the sun showed up for a few hours which really cheered me up. For now the wind is blowing at an angle from astern so I have poled out the Genoa. I invented something to prevent the pole from wearing through the sheet. I simply sacrificed a short rope by tying it to the Genoa’s eye. So now the pole doesn’t fray the sheet. Of course it will wear out with time but that is not as bad as wearing out the sheet. This experiment seemingly works very well, but that is also what I first thought of my previous solutions with the Duct Tape, Rescue Tape and wrapping cloth around the sheet… But in theory this should do fine. The sea is steadily building up to biger waves and some huge ones have already washed into the cockpit, of course at exactly the moment when I was standing there.. And again I was thrown all thru the boat with some loose things coming along with me, which means everything is back to normal in Guppyland..

Laura