Mairmade - Day#2

Today was a much more 'normal' day with winds 15-20, and no saltwater on the decks! We can feel that we're might be able to set into a routine, but we're not quite there yet!

At the 24 hour mark we had sailed 186nm. We're hoping for 350nm at 48 hours...

We flew the Code-0 for a while today (after having to wrestle it to the deck during last night's "events") which was good, but also tried out a crazy idea of flying it without a mainsail, and pole-ing it out using the boom. There's a lot of lines involved; we ended up abandoning the idea 🤔. Code-0 is back on the deck for the night, along with reefs in main and jib... For safety.

In other news: lest we forget it's a boat, and there's always something broken on a boat, today's system failure was plumbing... Fortunately it was gray water, not black 💩 but galley sink and shower drains were inoperable due to a failed float switch. 🤬

At least one of those two is critical 🤣

Of all the spare parts we carry aboard, that particular float switch isn't one of them! 😞 But we were able to use a bilge float switch (multiple spares on board) zip-tied in place as a stop gap.

All systems working again, and time to settle in to night watches...

Day#2 done.


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