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Blue Moon - day 16 blog blue moon



Wet grey morning…after an rolling wobbly night,with dolphins gusts and flying fish attacking sergio hihihi( our passionate fisherman ) what a start…
Still wind from 14-24kn…waves from 2-4m coming from south-east…
Im so motivated to fly the kite today after yesterday’s perfect sailing day( little waves, calm sea and 16kn wind,just indescribable)
After my shift work with cleaning toilettes, checking biles for water, turning vegetables, bimini up and installing solar panels.
Im cooking scrambled eggs for me and Thalita, jamiiii…
So ready to hoist our kite again at 0730am, new record hihi… i wanna fly to saint lucia…
We are even able to hoist it, only the two of us 😊
And there is a magic moment when you pull the kite up to the sky and wind gets into it …wow there is a push in it and the boat starts to move much faster…
It takes some time to adjust and trimm the kite and then its heaven…
I have to say, today its much more difficult with less wind and bigger waves..
As we change the group and shifts every three ours at daytime all of us are able to helm and get more experience with the kite.
Then suddenly there is this big BANG again and after few hours we lose again our soft buckle at our masthead starboard side. We are lucky and happy nobody is hurt and we are able to lower him down safely again…
After clearing the situation we are a bit smashed and emotional in our heads, hmm …no wonder why…
A good debriefing and respectful talks help to get over it and we keep sailing with jib and mainsail…still with 7-8 kn and even bigger waves and wind from the side,
All day full on really nice sailing in rough sea and beautiful sunshine till the evening…this time its my turn to cook and its a acrobatic way of holding squeezing and hold on to pans carottes lentils and lots of veggies, its my homemade lentil stew, jamiii

We are very tired today evening and after dinner at 1730 everybody sneaking to bed very early except the starting night shift…still 650nm to go…maybe Friday in saint Lucia…we are getting closer every day…
Flying over the waves is pure happiness…im so thankful
Good night to all you lovely people at home. Would love to say thanks that you let us experience this adventure on the Atlantic crossing and your every day support over thousands of kilometers…
Big hug
Mathias


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