12:30pm, Mon July 14
I made a tasty batch of oatmeal this morning, dried mangoes craisins apricots and a banana. It was even better with peanut butter mixed in.
Angie would agree that Avion has a lot of strings for a boat her size. All led to the cockpit, except for some of the spinnaker pole controls. So that, combined with a mainsheet traveler that goes across the rather small cockpit, makes playing twister as we shift the 3 crew on deck complicated. 3 of the lines are continuous loops, so they have to be contended with specially. Not to mention everyone has a dual tether, so we are clipped in at all times. It can get complicated. In the middle of this the tiller has to get handed off cleanly. Last night as we were playing the game, while Nico steered, Juan was wrestling the boom vang loop, his tether, where to put his feet, and keep his balance, I got the bright idea of “helping” him with the boom vang line. He was quite twisted up in all of it before he started to get upset, and only then realized I was “helping”. We had a good laugh, and later Nico told some of his Club Med prank stories. He taught sailing there in the Bahamas, and they seem to know how to have fun there. At least he does.
We just dropped and reraised the A3 spinnaker, paused to check for chafe on its halyard at the masthead sheave. Keeping track of and stopping these kind of issues is key. We’ve rejiggered how a few things are run to minimize stress, chafe and wear of the lines and fittings. The spinnaker guy is run inside the lifelines right now, as we have the pole so far forward for reaching on the A3. This is why some boats are set up with a reaching strut at the bow.
To bed for 3 hours of shut eye.
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