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Luna - Log 13 - Det er ischkooldt!



Når søens folk ikke har meget at berette om selve sejladsen, kan man jo altid fortælle historier om andre ting. Og i dag vil det handle om, hvor overraskende varmt, man skal klæde sig på her ude...

Det er ikke fordi, det i sig selv er super koldt. Da vi sejlede fra Bermuda, var det da bestemt shorts og t-shirt-temperaturer. Men så snart man ikke bevæger sig (aka sidder stille i cockpittet), så bliver man kølet ned overraskende hurtigt. Og når man så på en nattevagt skal sidde ned uden at røre sig stort i fire timer (sådan har vi inddelt nattens 12 timer i tre lige store portioner), så skal man klæde sig meget varmt på.

Vi har alle fundet det lange skiundertøj frem og har 3-5 lag tøj på under- og overkrop, og ikke mindst er der kommet både huer og handsker frem af gemmerne...og de er et must på en hver vagt.

Ellers kan der berettes om påbegyndt fiskning, hvor vi har lige så stort held, som da vi sejlede mod Bermuda. Well, vel nærmest mindre for vi fanger end ikke tang nu :-)

Og efter en meget stille og rolig nat (vi går stadig for motor, men med rimelig hjælp fra sejl kan vi nu skyde en OK fart), hvor alle vist læst en masse litteratur, har vi her til morgen sat genakkeren op og fået 1/2-1 ekstra knobs fart i båden.

Solen skinner, delfinerne springer (og så var der også lidt hval-skum-prust et godt stykke fra båden her til morgen), og vi hygger os fortsat ombord på det dejlige skib, Luna :-)

/Luna & Besætning

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When there's not much to say about the sailing, one can always tell another story. And today, the telling is about how surprisingly warm clothes you have to wear out here...

It's not because it is really cold if you look at the temperature. When we left Bermuda it was definitly shorts and t-shirt temperatures. But as soon as you don't move much around (aka sitting relatively still in the cockpit), you actually get cold quite soon. Combining this with the fact that during a nightwatch you really don't move your body much at all for four hours (that's how we have shared the 12 hours of night in three equal shares), then you really have to put on a huge amount of warm clothes.

We have all found our warmest underwear (normally used for cold activities such as skiing) and we put on 3-5 layers of clothes on both the lower as well as the upper part of the body. And not the least, we digged out our hats and gloves from the back of the closet, where all the winter gear was stowed away :-)

Besides this, we have now started fishing again. And we are in as much luck with this as we were on the leg to Bermuda. Well, not quite as much luck: This time we don't even get to catch the sea weed ;-)

After another really quite night (still sailing by both sail and engine to get a decent speed), where everybody had some time and quiteness for reading, we put up the Genakker this morning adding 1/2-1 knots to the speed of the boat.

The sun is shining, the dolphins are jumping (and we saw a bit of whale-blowing-water somewhere far away this morning, and we are all still having a good time onboard the lovely sailing yacht Luna :-)

/Luna & Crew

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