Yesterday was busy day until the anchor was firmly lodged in the ground. This was at 1552.

Then the “work after” needed to be done.

Get the main sail better folded in the sail bag and close the bag from the head of the sail until the sailbag’s end.

Next I moved the boom to STB to get less shadow on the solar panels. For this I need to adjust the main sail traveler position, extend the length of the main sheet, lower the top lift a bit, attach an additional line at the end of the boom, feed this line through the block at PRT side middle cleat, and bring it back to the furler winch to get tension on all 3 involved lines. A three-point fixation.

Then all lines, six of them, around the mast and genoa sheets, and furling line were cleared.

Logbook entry to be completed.

Then all was done.

But what was to be done before dropping the anchor?

You remember, the monkey with the tin tool, who always stole the wind on the very long Pacific leg? It treated us not that nice yesterday as well. Mr Wind-Ows, who really shuffle wind yesterday should have seen that the wind direction was not best but he didn’t care. The monkey with the tin tool deflected the wind further, thus we did not get a nice and direction stable ENE wind. The wind moved from ENE and even NE at the beginning, to E. So it was quickly clear that we need to tack twice.

As I hoped to sail without a tack to the destination, I did not set the small jib sail, which makes shifting the genoa easily to the other side. Therefore, we had to furl the genoa to the largest extend to go through the wind and unfurl it again. It didn’t go that smooth and MaRe stalled. We needed the engines to get into the new direction.

Lesson learned: When sailing upwind, especially in closed haul situations always set the jib sail to be prepared.

Around 1300 we tacked and sail for about 45 min on the STB tack to gain enough lee way to reach our destination only by sailing.

After the second tack, I saw that I need to pinch MaRe so we can sail into the bay. Very carefully I did it and she never stalled. Good lady! For the last mile I just could let her run on close reach course and she made fine to the bay. Almost inside the bay we furled the genoa and got the mainsail down quickly. A bit of motoring in the bay and I dropped the hook and it lodged immediately firmly. We had arrived.

BTW, when I looked at the 12 V power consumption, I was surprised. Solar panels and
MaRe’s SuperWind – would love to have 2 SuperWinds – charged all what we needed during the day. We needed a lot during the day because we used the autopilot in response level 2 and 3 all day long.