We changed our clocks about a week ago. There was a lot of confusion last night with another clock change, Hannah managed to sneak in a 2 hour shift rather than the regular 3 hours. Out here our devices cannot automatically pick up time changes as I guess there is no country to be attached to, so we all put our devices to Denver USA time. Problem was not only did we change time zones but the States put their clocks back an hour at 2am! All very confusing for the early hours of the morning. We are now just manually changing the time on our devices, I think we have one more time zone before we hit the Marquesas.
Nevil came up with a new sail strategy as our winds remained very light, hovering between 8-11 knots. In my totally incorrect sailing terminology, I am writing this on my midnight shift, so have no way of verifying it (so no doubt I will get howls of disapproval from the sailors), but in my mind the sail set up is pretty close to what we used to call goose winging. The wind is from directly behind us, so they have tied the main sail as far out as possible and put Scary Spice on the other side, then they have put Posh Spice ( …. too posh to push! – jib/solent) straight out in the middle of the boat. This blocks the wind from escaping around the front of the mast. Hopefully this channels all the wind the main sail catches into Scary Spice. It is very comfortable and most importantly we are getting 6 – 8 knots boat speed in 8-11 knots wind speed which is great. We seem to have crept up a notch on the leader board. All the chat on the fleet is about the different sails, repairs and lack of wind!
Even though it was a Sunday we managed a bit of boat work, floors were hoovered and mopped, bilges were cleaned. Rowan and Nevil solved the pong mystery in the guest hull, it was a loose connection in a pipe, so fingers crossed.
The fleet WhatsApp reported that one boat saw the green flash at yesterday’s sunset, we sat on the trampoline with our fake cocktails, which Nevil is getting very creative with, desperately watching for the flash but it remains elusive!
Our new sail set up, from the right we have the Main sail, then Posh Spice (jib/solent) and then Scary Spice (the Asymmetric sail) channeling what little wind we have into big Scary Spice
Love the fact that Apple maps located us out here in all this blue sea
Enjoying non alcoholic creamy pina coladas made by Nevil
No green flash for us
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