ARC 2015
tisdag 8 december 2015 - Skrivet av Leif
Captain's blog day 57
This late in the rally. the days become a bit of a (nice) routine

We find wind a bit too strong (?) at 8 o’clock (GMT) so we wait another two hours to hoist the gennaker.  Immediately we tear along at 7 knots.  We have calculated that we need to make a mean 6.8 knots if we are to be able to have a beer in the bar on Friday night !!  This takes some doing, perhaps leave the gennaker up for another 3-4 hours in the evening.  It all depends on how the squall situation looks.

Stefan makes French Onion soup for lunch, oh my, very tasty indeed.  At 1300 (GMT) we determine the day’s distance to be 151 miles. 

In the afternoon clouds and squalls appear in the rear.  We keep track of them, steer away and dodge.  Just as we feel safe the final gust from one of the hits us. 25 knots, we almosr braoch…and the gennaker is torn, the new, fancy, full size gennaker is rather badly damaged in the clew horn(!)  Jeessus, we have now ruined two sails in 2 consecutive days !  We snuff it and stuff it down the hatch and have a “happy” hour in the cockpit, contemplating this bad fortune.

A meat casserole in the pressure cooker lightens our hearts.  We let the genua stay up for the night.  There is commotion in  the air, gusts of wind and swells.  Oh those swells, they really rock us.

For dinner we have corned beef (?!).  One’s imagination can easily get the better of oneself over contemplations what is actually stuffed into ”corned beef” (?)  We have a recepie, though, from “Always a distant anchorage" by Al Roth.  You fry them in flower and egg yolk and then make a sweet and sour sauce and add pineapple chunks.  Serve with rice.  Delicious.  Hans has once more surpassed himself.

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