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Good morning, people. Have a lovely Sun day. This was my sunrise on Saturday.

It took me over two hours to set up this wing-on-wing configuration. Wish me luck, that there won’t be any nasty squalls this night. To furl in the genoa would be easy, but to get the mainsail down in squalls is no fun. The forecast does not look bad at all.

This is the smallest Flying Fish that has ever landed in my cockpit. Nothing you can do about Flying Fish landing on your ship. They fly through the air and crash against the structure of the boat. Most of them die immediately due to the impact. Only rarely can you put one back into the sea alive. Two days ago I got nearly hit by one. With a loud bang he crashed into the steel structure of the bimini. So sad.

Or is it spelled Tyndahl? Without internet I am nothing. Nice, anyways. Cheers. U.

Sailing along, downwind, just with the reefed jib. I am doing 5 kn in 20 kn wind. The boards in the companionway are in …

These big waves are going to get smaller in the next couple of days. At the moment I am still in washing machine mode. Time to get back to some faster sailing then. The lines in different colours depict the estimates of different weather models. The most accurate ars the black (ECMWF) and green (GFS) lines. Wave height means the average of the highest 25% of the waves if i recall that number correctly by heart. Individual waves can be (and are) significantly higher.

Enjoy the violet moment with me.

After taking the mainsail down at night. The wind is too strong, continuous 24 kn, and the waves are building up to 3.5 m. Took me two hours to finish this maneuvre. All under good control. I did not really enjoy the seawater showers I got on deck and in the cockpit. Back to sleep now.

Yes, it is the same moon, here in the South pacific, and at your place at home. Only, I see it 9 hrs later rising than you see it in central Europe. Gerd the Gecko is still alive! His new home is under a pile of lines on deck, outside the cockpit. Dangerous place. I only walk around there secured with a tethering line. I think there might be another guest animal on board, i guess it’s a Panama Jaguar. I can tell by the smell …

This is a typical deviation of my course caused by rainclouds. The red circle marks a rainy patch as seen on the radar. The direction of the wind changes around 70°. Easy is steering to the angle of the wind at the moment, and follows the new direction of the wind. This leads to a change of course as you can see on the plotter. I react late to this situation, and make quite a detour. (This is a screenshot of the mirrored image on my tablet. The double colour lines are artifacts, the app that links plotter and tablet is lousy, but the only one available.)