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Sail away - Sail Away Day 4



Continued through the night heading SE with a double reefed main.  8 Am wind dropping into the high teens, shock out the reefs in the main and set the Genoa and staysail.  Looking at the wind predictions we decided we should head further east so we flipped to a broad reach on the port tack.  

We saw another sailboat running do south, turned out to be Island Tales and we connected on the VHF.  They said they were crossing the Gulf Stream near Isbjorn when Isbjorn blew out a sail.  They got everything on film.  I think I know who gets the Gill Jacket!  Anyway running across Island tales a Tayana 48 means where not doing that badly.  Island Tales was heading straight downwind, something Sail Away doesn’t do well.  But I felt that was the wrong course anyway, because the prediction do south looks like very light air, so we kept with our easting approach. 

Besides the butter hasn’t melted yet!  We were running east with full main, genoa and staysail making a fairly steady 7 kts and by midnight were almost on the 68th parallel.



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