Yay spinnaker day.

Wind gods were smiling on us. We pulled out our medium spinnaker and flew it all day long. Such a nice comfortable ride when the kites come out to play.

Well, it wasn’t without drama, cause nothing ever is. I rigged it all up went to hoist the sock and looked and felt wrong, brought it down. Felt like it was twisted or in the sock backwards. Re tied and re tried, still wasn’t right. A few more goes, finally opened it up and yup all twisted up, must have had a hard take down on our way to New Zealand and I forgot about it. So now it’s flying all twisted up, bring it back down, but at least this time I could see where the twist was so, untie and re-worked the lines and voila success at last. Beautiful day.

Normally when we fly a spinnaker it’s always babysitting to make sure the wind cooperates and there are no squalls nearby. Today the skies were overcast and uniform so we were able to relax and let it fly.

We took it down just before the radio check in, they asked what happened to our boat speed.. 😉 we were busy taking a sail down that is the size of a 2000 sq foot house. Slight exaggeration 170m2 is about 1800 sq feet, I take liberties to exaggerate bad math skills. During the radio check in, wouldn’t ya know it a 25 knot rain spritz came along. Perfect timing.

Bbq pulled pork on a bagel for dinner, redneck kosher.

Dark night lots of clouds and the moon doesn’t come out till nearly midnight.

All well on board, not our fastest passage but we are knocking off the miles, under 600 miles to go.

Fingers crossed we can fly again tomorrow but probably not.