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Hanse Sailor - Day 6: flat batteries, swimming, torn spinnaker, sewing and a green flash



Day 6 (yesterday, 26th of Nov) on the ARC became a a quite eventful day on the Hanse Sailor.
 
In the morning the batteries went flat, possibly due to too spoiled crew members consuming too much.
Around 10-ish the wind slowed down which made most of us wanting to take a swim in the nice (and strong) sun light (sun factor 50 factor was applied). Quite nice it was. We felt brave so no “nobby watch” was appointed (nobby = small creature pealing off skin and flesh).
During noon, assessing the downloaded ARC emails and grib weather info, having the gennaker up together with the main, mr Neptune made a prank to totally change wind direction and swooped the gennaker on the other tac making it caught in a cleat like device on the lower spreader (what function it had there everybody wondered), resulting in 70% of the clew seam being ripped. Down the gennaker went and we started to repair the damage with needle and thread.
Just before dinner (pasta Bolognese plus a veggie sauce) we stopped the sewing of sail repair to watch the sun go down in the ocean with great anticipation to see if we would see a “green flash”. And we saw it! At least me and Graham while Stefan (from Norway a.k.a. “Chris”), Stefan and Craig looked away at the second it appeared. Had I pressed the correct button on my camera I would have caught the beautiful sequence. Instead I got the cheering and curses from the crew afterwards.
 
Johan, crew on Hanse Sailor


Day 6 image collage (smaller)

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