SY Hullu Poro

Twelve hours darkness is a long time. The wind dropped a bit to 15 to 20kts after midnight, which turned the sail from wet into dry. Much more pleasant. My headache is almost gone, still need to be careful with my movements as seasickness is still around. Hope for a decent breakfast once the sun is out and my riggcheck done. Have not eaten since departure apart from a piece of bread with cheese. On the positive, the clouds dissapeared, so did the moon but 360° view on a sky full with starts is just amazing and pays a little bit off against the energy to put into this passage. Got my Pactor modem working now – Windows, no comments – and will now download the latest weather forecast to check my progress against the planned schedule. Looking foward to see the sun coming out.

Fair winds…

Bernd

It is dark now and the tiny little moon we have is hiding behind the clouds.The day was two folded. On one side, we made very good progress due to the fact that the wind is higher than predicted. We have around 20 to 25kts almost constantly. Sometimes it drops but only to take a short breather and then it is back to push us South. Despite the reefs in main and foresail our speed is around 7kts. Tomorrow we have to slow down as I do not want to arrive in darkness at the tip of Lanzarote. Will see tomorrow. On the other side, I started with light headache in the morning. Jutta, Will, Anton and Martin were all there to help me throwing the lines and say goodbye for now. As we are all heading down to Lanzarote, we will meet again. But then with the headache my stomach started to complain and a light seasickness came along. I rarely get this but while sailing single-handed it is the least thing you want to face. The whole day, I took it very very lightly and feel much better now after some rounds of short sleep and watching the ocean. Therefore I could not completely enjoy the day today and hope for a smooth night sail and a better day tomorrw.

Fair winds…

Bernd