What a long day I have ended up having today. I know I have been saying that a lot lately but today was quite long in comparison as I tried to tick off all the jobs I have left to get done before the next round of bad weather closes in. And as usual it all started with a night of broken sleep. I managed……
Well tonight has actually been a really long night, which is why I am unintentionally still up and working on the blog at midnight. But let me go back to this morning first. This morning I was needing to be mostly awake from about 5am as I was waiting for the new winds to arrive, signalling the beginning of this storm. I had set my alarm to wake me every 30 minutes so I could…….
The trick is to maintain control over the mainsail the whole time, for me the boom that the sail flies from is secured with the preventer lines so it is a case of easing a little preventer and winching in on the mainsheet (control line), it’s when I need to switch the preventers over that it can be tricky, the deck is pitching and rolling………
Well, I was really hoping for some sleep last night, but the weather gods had other ideas. If it wasn’t the radar alarm going off, then it was a particularly large wave side swiping us or it was the fact that I was getting really shifty squally weather, so the winds were going from 13 knots to 33 knots at any time making…….
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