As I used in the previous narration the word “routine”, here is a routine we did around noon.

At PRT we saw a wonderful squall carrying cloud approaching. Too nice to neglect it. When we were sure, it will hit us, we made the “squall routine”.
– Furling the genoa
– Starting the engines
– Steering into the wind
– Getting the main down to reef 2
– Hooking the reef 2 ring into the gooseneck shackle
– Pulling the sail up
– Getting tension into reef 2 line
– Letting the top lift carefully out to see if the boom it’s carried by the sail
– Clearing up the all lines around the mast
– Getting boat back into course
– Pulling the genoa out
– Trimming genoa and main sail to wind and course
– Securing the boom

As we perform this routine already very well, we had to do it about 4 hrs later again.

Now it’s 16:45, MaRe wears already her night gown, which makes her squall safe, and as we have a bunch of squalls hanging at the horizon, we leave her dressed as she is already for the night.

What will the night bring us?

The moment I wrote above line a rain front approach MaRe from about 0500 direction at an incredible speed. We just had enough time to jump into our rain gear when the rain created, whitish sea surface, perfectly illuminated by the sun through a hole in the clouds reached MaRe. I never saw such a spectacular phenomenon before.

That fast a squall can hit a boat! “Fail to prepare, is prepare to fail!”, is the sentence which got once again in my mind.

If nothing unforseen happens, I’m going to upload this narration now!