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Furia - sailing in a soup of brown sea weeds



Day 11 seems to be more laborious. In the morning we raised the spinnaker again. We were sailing on port tack. Amazing speeds, however some 20 deg. off course, not exactly in our destination. There was some vibration felt and we checked the rudder and the keel with the GoPro camera to find out a big bunch of sea weeds around our keel closer to the bottom. Dropped the spinnaker, turned the engine on, turned into the wind, mainsail let our some way to avoid flapping and gave full throttle astern. We let the bunch of weeds loose.

Decided to sail butterfly (poled out jib) on port tack. A lot of rolling. Changed the tack to starboard, more into the course. However, in the early afternoon we entered a soup of brown sea weeds. Dian tried to avoid them without success. They were everywhere. We caught them again. It seems that we will lose some miles today slowing our movement because of avoiding and disentangling manoeuvres.
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