Three days ago we had black Friday, some bad luck gave us a really hard time. The morning started kind of nice though, the wind had decreased a little and the waves were down to about 3 meters. So we had controllable conditions and decided to set the storm spinnaker. Up it went and we speeded up, more fun again :-D Than all of a sudden the kite came down, tenth the speed we’ve put it up and to make disaster complete it went directly into the water. The Block up in the mast had broken, so it came down together with the halyard and the spinnaker. ‘All women on deck’ we pulled in the wet kite and a storm one is heavy enough with out being soaked. But on the other hand as it was the strong storm spinnaker it came out unharmed ;-) We cleared up the boat, had Dunja up the mast to attach a new block and check everything up there. Which of course isn’t that easy in three meter sea, but everything went well and we decided to set the Genoa 2 just not to force our luck. Everybody was already quite worn out and as it wasn’t enough for today a large gust blew the gib overboard while we’ve been hoisting it. So another sail to pull out of the water, just a little bit heavier and much more difficult to get hold of. When everything was finally back to kind of normal, we sailed on with the Genoa 4 and a speed of 11 to 12 knots. Later in the evening we hoisted the kite again, speeded up, and enjoyed the sun downing. And this was black Friday on KPMG!

Today sail on in light SW winds, try to avoid the calms east of us and clear up the boat. The halyards and blocks of the spinnaker keep to wrap around each other and during yesterdays kite change we had to pull Melanie up to clear them up. The light weather bugs us, we’d rather like to have some strong winds, but our weather router already predicted stronger winds to set in on Tuesday, we’ll see :-)

Greetings from the Newfoundland Basin (about 4500m water below us),