Now, being in day 7 of our transatlantic sail and in day 3 in the trade wind, a relaxed routine had spread on board. More reading, more sitting and watching and writing. Watching can easily become a kind of meditation. G said yesterday that there are millions and millions of waves but there are not two waves which are the same.<\/p>\n
No sail change since yesterday also were are curious if the round-sail performs as sold at TWS of 20+ kn. Everyone says, we should test it, but nobody makes a decisive move. Relaxed life on board.<\/p>\n
We moved the flow generator into off-position losing about 4 – 6 A constant charging current but gained about half a knot on speed.<\/p>\n
As we have AWS (apparent wind speed) of about 16 -20 kn on, the wind generator becomes much more effective and the indicator shows 4 – 6 A. This appears as reasonable because the batteries are not empty thus the charging currents gets reduced by its controller. With solar and wind we have a total net charging current of 2 – 7 A. That looks like a good preparation for the night.<\/p>\n
Talking about speed, we have winds of 5 – 6 Bft (Beaufort; if I recall it right, there is a good article in Wikipedia), in knots the range is 18 – 30 (TWS). With only the genoa, we are running the full range of 7 kn; sometimes a high 6 and sometimes a low 8.<\/p>\n
MaRe takes the waves good. Very seldom a higher waves rolls to MaRe from a more northern direction, which makes MaRe swing around a bit on the “down hill slope” of the wave. In an extremely rare case the genoa flaps a bit and only 1 – 2 times the sail collapsed and was leaning against the inner stay and the mast for a few seconds.<\/p>\n
The autopilot in wind vane mode keeps MaRe very good in the set wind angle.<\/p>\n
G again tries his luck with the catch-of-the-day? As we are sailing pretty fast, we might only catch tuna or a wahoo. To increase the chance, G trolls the bait more than 100 m behind. Two crew members are prepared to immediately reef the genoa to reduce MaRe’s speed to get the catch in.<\/p>\n
Until the fish decides to take the G’s lure, G cuts already zucchinis, pumpkins, onions… Will he create a vegetarian meal without the catch-of-the-day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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