Hummingbird Blog
29 November 2024
Patrick says
we'll learn to love the spinnaker, but I have my own unpublishable name for it
right now! Its not the tricky helming or the actual sailing it's the hoisting
and dousing. We don't have a snuffer, so taking it down is complicated process
of stuffing lines and sail between the foot of the main and boom (the
letterbox!), shuffling it down below where it takes up the saloon, galley, main
accommodation and fore peak. Most of the crew are then involved in rolling tying
with wool (singing Woolly Bully in harmony) and shoving it into its sail bag.
Exhausting!
We saw two
whales yesterday, apparently small, but they looked pretty big to me. El has a
video.
Some of the
fruit is on its last legs, bananas black and kiwis soft, but the apples are
still lush.
Doc & Chip
served a delicious beef noodle stir fry for dinner.
Overnight
sailing busy with a few other vessels to watch.
A couple of the
crew are feeling a bit homesick, but generally morale is
good.
We just need the
wind gods to find us!