Cloudy Bay - 1 Dec: Patience, sail changes and a dive

We should not have stated that we sailed for 7 days straight :o As of last night we have been struggling with the wind and sails. Starting with a flapping goose wing, we tried the gennaker. It worked for a while, until the wind really died to below 3 knots and the engine was started. The wind picked up... sails out again, wind dies down... back to the iron horse. At around 10 this morning, we wanted to try every sail configuration we could think of. Gennaker again, Code 0, only poled out jib and goose wing both sides, nothing seemed to do the trick with a variable 4-8 knots and a little swell. The flapping drove us almost crazy... That was the point where we decided to let us just drift on the waves and to take a dive in the great blue ocean!! We always had one man on the boat just in case. The water was nice and warm but it gave me a little shiver of fear when I jumped in. But how many others can say they had a swim in the middle of the Atlantic ocean?!

The rest of the day kept on going like stated above, sails out, wind dies, engine on and repeat. As for now, we are sailing in 7 knots of wind with the gennaker with about 4 knots towards the golden clouds of the sunset :)

Ilse