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For Tuna
Owner Michael Hofer & Simon Folie
Design Beneteau Oceanis 393
Length Overall 11 m 99 cm
www.whensailing.com
Flag Netherlands
Sail Number 2




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03/12/2020

For Tuna - Log 3 - Day 17

Hello Sailors,whoever says atlantic crossings are boring please try again;) after chasing a few squalls yesterday the wind left us again...and so did our mainsail...it slowly fell down and decided to take a rest - in the pitch dark night (it was still cloudy all around us) we tried to figure out what happened: the halyard sheet on the head of the furler inside the mast loosened, some single strands first and slowly the whole knot came undone - we managed to fold the sail in nicely and it was time to walk up the mast - armed with a small weight and a fishing line to guide a new halyard sheet through the mast…it took us 5 hours until all was done and the sail is back up again - right when we finished a slow squall hit us and bathed the whole boat in rain - so Simon could finally test his. read more...


27/11/2020

For Tuna - Log 2 - Day 10

Hello Sailors,Fishcount: 7 - we managed to reel in 5 mahi mahi and two tunas;) Still eating fresh fish and even conserved some tuna in olive oil. As wind and waves picked up we decided to pause fishing for now and are well on route with an average of 6.9 knots and all sails max reefed.Today we celebrated Gretas Birthday with some freshly baked sacher cake and finished the day with pizza - our Autopilot was named Oskar and since then is able to cope better with the heavy waves. During the day we hand steered a lot as we were surfing the waves with a max speed of 14.5 knots. the waves still can’t decide what to do so every now and then they throw us out of bed (literally!) or bath us in saltwater:)Salty wishes from For TunaMichael. read more...


20/11/2020

For Tuna - Log 1 - Day 4

Hello Sailors,For Tuna is well on route and the wind and waves were good to us - the 2nd night was rough and rolly but the crew recovered soon after as we caught 3 mahi mahi - it all started with a 2.5 meter swordfish though, we saw it following the lures for a few minutes and the fins came out (not sure if it was a shark i initially;) after we release one lure towards the fish it bit, jumped a few times and after a few minutes of fighting managed to release itself...as we had fresh pizza dough in the making we prepared some tasty mahi mahi pizza and still have enough left for another meal:)All are well and our new Rolly Tasker Sails are superb - we manage to fly 5 knots with 4-5 knots of wind and the gennaker was already hoisted twice - a huge success for our first gennaker sail. read more...



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