Tuesday, January 17, 2017

storm clouds?

A squall approaches at sunset so we hurriedly take a reef in the main and haul down the gennaker as we don't want to be caught with it up in excessive wind if we can help it. On previous legs we've had to fight to get the gennaker down while battling wind, rain and wave action - no fun.
The squall line isn't well defined so it's probably just a fire drill but good practice for everyone.
Sallie just asked me in a text message about our fuel situation that I had mentioned a few days ago. We made many calculations and estimates and decided a day or two ago that we should make it with what we have, Columbus did the same route with none :-)
Being more cautious with fresh water use will help a bunch as it requires a lot of fuel to run the water maker.
You can see our turn west on the tracker when we made the decision (and then back south after we pulled the latest weather again and realized we turned west a bit too soon)
C'est la vie.

1 comment:

  1. I was wondering about the fuel situation but had seen your right turn (Clyde) and figured you'd make the call. Shame, Cape Verde looks interesting and you're not in a race (unless there's another sail on the horizon).

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