The night was quiet! Wind and waves were decent! I slept inbetween the million things that wakes one up on a sailboat making a passage! I thought about deploying the whisker pole during the night but decided against it and to wait til day light. Therefore I kept a more western heading to allow sails to be on a beam reach.
First thing this morning “let’s deploy that whisker pole” that caused us to delay our departure for 8 weeks! So, I reefed the main considerably to allow the head sail to have unobstructed wind, took the pole out of the chalk (rubber holder on bottom of track), tugged on the topping lift to allow some height and slowly raised the pole and pulled out the sail. Hmmm, should we telescope the pole more. Na, it seems happy for now!
Tada, we are heading more south then west and aiming for inbetween Christmas Island and the Marquesses. We are surfing waves and drinking coffee!
Sails and sailors are happy!
At 09.00 N17*24.072 W115*43.10 COG: 230 SOG: 7kn ….clouds and flying fish!
Sailaway Sarantium 