A busy day, but well-fed day starts at 0700. A dawn struggle on the foredeck , but after an hour all hands have fixed and untangled the wrapped cruising chute and genoa. David discovered stbd upper spreader steadily making its way through the Mainsail. 3 foot long seam split. We heave-to to reef the mainsail to bring the damage below the upper spreader and to flatten the sail to keep it off spreaders. Deployed furler genoa to stbd with boomed out no.1 staysail to port.
After David's amazing grilled cured Spanish bacon on brown bread breakfast our working day continued with reassembling the cruising chute and its bits and lowering and repairing the mainsail. Not brave enough for stitching yet so big patches were cut from a bolt of sticky-back dacron, and stuck on either side of sail. Difficult to do as even with sail lowered the job was 8 ft up and much effort was needed just clinging on to the boom.
Fishing tried again today by Nick, who is now into his 3rd lost trace, still with no visible reward. Obviously something out there bites. We probably couldnt handle it anyway even if we caught it.
First proper all sit down at table type supper this evening, for Mike's pork, beans and potato casserole.
Night watch with Orion and his friends. Counting Jupiters moons by binoculars. Rolling along in a phosphorescent spray under our strange hybrid 3-sail rig. No-one else in sight. Snoring, and other noises, and red lights below.
M, D, N
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