Atlantic blog: Champagne Sailing

28/11 Morning 21°25´30"N 31°04´67″W

A day of recovery. After 5-6 heavy days, the weather begins to lighten, the gennaker sails in the 7 second meters that prevail and the waves are almost non-existent. The crew ventures up on deck with books and board games in just their bathing suits. The sun is blazing on the deck, so if you get hot, you go to the stern and throw a couple of buckets of water over yourself and then go back and sink back into your newly opened detective.

The night's sleep has been deeply and long-awaited, instead of going double shifts at night to be prepared to quickly tear or gybe for a squall, half the force can now be on deck. Just something like the fact that we have dared to lighten the roof hatches to the cabins makes things a lot easier, before it has been stuffy and hot but now we get a continuous stream of fresh sea air down into the boat.

There has been time to re-rig the mainsail to a bulkhead point on deck so that we can have the sunroof up during the day, time to take care of yourself and your cabin could not have come at a better time. This "Champagne Sailing" that Chris Tibbs talked so much about at one of the lectures in Las Palmas has just started and we like it.

Mathias

(photo by: Mathias Edberg)