Robinson - Day 2: Almost eventful

After a light wind start yesterday, which made us look for free wind at the East side of the fleet, we sailed a number of lovely hours with 'Robby', our Parasailor. With increasing winds and a crew still needing slight adjustments to life at sea, we decided to go conservative and sail into the night with our white sails. We took a southerly course to avoid the lee of Gran Canaria. With lovely surfs once in a while and always some yachts or cargo ships around it was quite an enjoyable first night.

Today we started playing around a little more. First a stretch straight downwind with only the genoa, still doing 8 kts. Then as the wind decreased we fiddled around more which led to us now sailing under full main with Gyb'Easy on, poled out full genoa, steered by 'Windy', our Windpilot. Apart from the sail trim we checked out and fixed a little problem with the generator and are basically getting used to the movements of the boat and each other in sailing mode. With a couple of hours of sun left we now have to decide what to have for dinner; an integral part of the decision making progress during a crossing.

The fact that all participants disappear into thin air within 24 hours of the start remains intriguing..

So much for day 2, let's see what the night and next day bring. Love to our loved ones from 'Robinson'!

Robin, Annika and Bojan