The wind has been light which causing vicious wind shifts during the night. During our night shift the wind did just that. Leroy did well to follow the shifts for about 10min, until one shift was just to abrupt to follow causing the spinnaker to wrap around the forestay (our “ghost sail” has been breaking every night and not up at the time as I was still broken). Everyone came onboard but it still took about 30 to get it down. Leroy was up the mast, once again, untangling the spinnaker’s head from the halyards so that we could get it down. Once down the forestay Leroy, Ian, Hans and I had to unwrap it. Fortunately there was no damage and we were able to hoist is 15min later. This cost us some distance.
We have been joking about showering in the rain since we left Cape Town. Well, today we had a rain squall hit us. All of us stood outside and rinsed ourselves. I even brought out all my other dirty clothes and rinsed them.
The wind has been mostly light, again. So progress has been slow. It has been our worst day, distance wise, to date.
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