December 11 Friday Day 23
The excitement rises and hey we're making speed! We're in full
sailing gear, splash in the side and salt spray on the specs. During the night, we have
significantly reduced the sail area and we still make more than 8 knots. We are
going to pass a cold front and in the morning when we saw the wind turning from
NW - SW, we decided to gybe, to get a more favorable course.
After breakfast, we sat outside and checked the course and speed. Then
I saw that one of the throughgoing battens in the mainsail was on the
way out of its pocket. Exciting minutes out on the deck, getting the sail down
without shaking so that the batten would not make one last dive into the ocean.
That sort of batten is not easy to find in Puerto Montti. With Th at one end
of the sail and me at the other we pulled for all we were worth, I stretched
out my entire length + a bit to get a last minute grip on batten
and sail. The mainsail gets to rest for a while and we run before the wind for the inner
staysail.
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