The first 24 hours of Jua Kali's ARC2019 adventure have seen the team experience a range of different conditions and sail plans.
Fairly happy with our start, we got our symmetric spinnaker up in reasonable time and proceeded to try and pull away from the rest of the fleet while chasing down our friends on Scarlet Oyster and EH01.
After a couple of quick broaches in the acceleration zone (purely for educational purposes of course) we were well on our way with some surfs up to 15kts. These unfortunately did lose us a couple of fishing lures making the current count 2 lures lost to 0 fish caught, not a great ratio.
After briefly experimenting with the A5 the decision was made to go through the night with no spinnaker while the crew got used to driving the boat in the dark.
At first light this morning though we hoisted the symmetric spinnaker and are again making good progress south west.
The light of day
also
revealed something that we had grown to suspect during the night, an object (seemingly a large gravel sack or something similar) was caught around the rudder, this was making steering difficult as well as acting as a sea anchor! Oddly enough once we got it off we picked up another knot of speed.
Quote from the crew: "I want the strong winds back!"
So far no damage and all crew adjusting well to life at sea.
That's all for now, this has been Alex Fisher with The Jua Kali Report.
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