This is what I wrote just before to a friend in an email.

The watch duty is boring because Mr Wind-ow doesn’t work. He might be hanging around with his favorite key customers instead of shoveling wind to small sailors. I’ll send Mr Lin-ux to peck him heavily.

TWS is 7 – 8 KN in the moment. Just now I saw a value below 7 KN. The wind is not even able to keep enough pressure in the main sail to keep the boom stable on the leeward side and I have to use the rubber damped preventer to reduce the movements of the boom. When MaRe is on top of a swell wave, the boom goes a bit leewards to just swing back with a pretty loud sound; a sound I don’t want hear because it puts a lot of strain onto the material.

What pitty this lousy wind is after quite nice sailing for days. If no wind comes up when it’s getting 0700, I hoist the Big Blue. Although the new gennaker, the Big Blue, is very easily to be handled, I don’t want to use a 123 m2 sail at night.

Let’s see what the next hours will bring.