Wow. Day 6. This is the longest we have ever been on one passage before. For me, yesterday was a turning point in the passage. It felt like we settled into the routine and were just enjoying the day. We caught a Mahi Mahi which then triggered
us to film another #SnowmaneDisneySongChallenge video using the song Les Poissons from Little Mermaid. We had a lot of fun with it. Then immediately upon finishing filming we caught a second, much bigger Mahi Mahi. So far three other boats have taken up the
challenge and posted videos of their own. It's one small way of creating a community of boats on the water. Multiple other boats have said they are working on videos.
The wind is still very light but we were able to do a reasonable speed with our spinnaker. At sunset we doused the spinnaker and rolled out our new double Genoa configuration. This is something that I was pretty excited about. We put up two
different Genoas on the furler two days ago ready for it (it was very tough getting them both up, took a ton of strength on the winch). It only works for straight downwind or fairly close to straight downwind but the idea is that you have two huge sails on
the front of the boat and no main sail. Two Genoas is more sail area than a main and a Genoa and it's also much safer as there is no risk of gibing the boom (probably the most dangerous thing on a sail boat). The set up worked reasonably well through the night
and I am optimistic that it will work really well when the winds finally fill in (which predict wind keeps saying is coming soon). An advantage in the strong winds (as compared to the spinnaker) is that we can furl both sails easily from the cockpit if the
winds become too strong. You can't do that with the spinnaker.
We have tons of food, we are still on our first tank of water (which holds 200 litres of our 1000 litre capacity) we are having a good time. Nobody is sea sick....
Overall things are looking good.